Can HDFS Rebalancer run without interrupted Production Data?

[#1]

My Production environment has existing 4 data nodes.

I just added additional 4 data nodes in the cluster and would like to run the HDFS Rebalance to balance the data across the 8 data nodes. 

My question is, can I rebalance data but also ingesting and processing new data at the same time? Will it caused any file interrupted if do so? 

Thanks. 

[#2]

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[#3]

Hello @newtocm. Yes, You can run your jobs of ingesting and processing data when running the HDFS balancer. But it is ideally recommended to run the balancer when the load on the cluster is not at its peak, so the performance of the jobs are not impacted as balancer is a resource consuming process. 

[#4]

Is the balancer can be paused halfway during the peak and resume back again after the peak? 

[#5 · Accepted solution]

@newtocm you can't pause the Balancer. You can kill it and start it again and it will try to balance the rest of the DFS data remaining to be balanced.

[#6]

You can stop balancer at any time, it's safe to stop it by pressing ctrl+c command.
https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/When-should-i-stop-the-balancer/td-p/168115

[#7]

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