The new cluster templates feature in Cloudera Manager 5.7 makes creating clusters faster and easier. Often, after an Apache Hadoop cluster has been configured correctly, its admin will want to replicate the configuration in one or more clusters—whether for promoting a dev or staging cluster to production, or setting up a new production cluster with […]
Get an update on the progress of the effort to bring erasure coding to HDFS, including a report about fresh performance benchmark testing results. About a year ago, the Apache Hadoop community began the HDFS-EC project to build native erasure coding support inside HDFS (currently targeted for the 2.9/3.0 release). Since then, we have designed and […]