HDF on Azure - guidance

Indra — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:20:13 GMT

Looking for documentation on installing HDF on Azure. I see that there is no marketplace template and it will be a pure IaaS setup. This is for a PoC. Plan is to set up a 3 node NiFi-only cluster (no Kafka/Storm etc), with one management node for security/operations, leveraging Ambari to install NiFi.

Looking for guidance specifically on these areas-

OS image to use on Azure
Any OS level tuning/configuration that needs to be done
Anything networking related besides Azure vnet
Recommended foundational software with version – e.g. Java version and anything else
Minimum config - VM SKU, disk SKU, for operations and security node, and disk partitioning
Minimum config - VM SKU, disk SKU, disk partitioning for NiFi nodes
Any best practices
Detailed documentation

Thanks in advance.

Re: HDF on Azure - guidance

Wynner — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:30:41 GMT

@Anagha Khanolkar

There is no preferred OS for HDF, use the one that you have the most knowledge. I will say that LINUX is the most tested OS used.

There is documentation that cover OS specific tuning and best practices. The only required software is JAVA 8.

The minimum system resources will be driven by the volume of data, size of files and how much processing will be done on the data.

Here is a link to documentation that provides a good starting point and hardware sizing recommendations : Planning your deployment

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HDF on Azure - guidance

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