Will i be charged to my credit card for choosing a VM (Eg. A6) while configuring Hortonworks Sandbox?

[#1]

I have activated a free trial subscription, so just wanted to know if I'll be charged 2.4 MYR/hr on my bank account for Standard A6 VM or it'll be free during the Subscription Period?

Thanks,

Nikhil

[#2]

@Sam Mingolelli, if this is for Azure there is a 30 day free trial period. You can verify this by looking at the billing page.

Ron

[#3]

Thank you for your help.

[#4 · Accepted solution]

Have you considered using the downloadable VM? VirtualBox is free, and there is a free VM-Ware player for Windows. The only caveat is that your host machine needs at least 10Gb RAM - ideally 16Gb - and about the same in disk space.

[#5]

Many thanks for your reply.

I'm fairly new to this & self-training myself on Hadoop without any mentor. I'm looking at the tutorials on Lynda.com & other online resources to understand & get some hands-on experience. Can you guide me with how can i get a downloadable VM?

[#6]

You can get a sandbox from http://hortonworks.com/downloads/#sandbox

But you will need at least 8GB for the sandbox, so make sure you are on a machine that has 12-16GB RAM if you get that. If you don't have a machine with that amount of RAM, Azure/AWS is your option.

Any further questions, please open a new thread for each question, so it won't be a long thread of question and answers.

[#7]

There is no additional charge from Hortonworks for selecting sandbox VM. However, after 30 days of free trial, you may get billed from Azure for any usage as a resource usage time (not for selecting this specific Hortonworks sandbox)

[#8]

Thank you for your help.