@Mark Thorson Let me confirm 1) You are installing ambari server in one of the nodes 2) You are manually installing agent in all the nodes I won't worry about table yet. You should go ahead and do the install yum install ambari-server and yum install ambari-agent --> in all nodes ... View more

- Should we place each of the node in a separate cloud service or all nodes in a single cloud service? No - Should we setup HDP on all the nodes (18 nodes) and setup a Windows Server with Active directory for name resolution as show in the TechNet blog? Can we not have HDP cluster running without jumpbox? This will work. HDP will be in all the nodes and you can have AD in one of the nodes - Do we need to build a separate VPC? Yes for security reasons. - Is there any documentation in place which talks about step by step setting up? Yes ..see that official blog - What are the best practices around? ... View more

@Smart Solutions See this official blog http://hortonworks.com/blog/easy-steps-to-create-hadoop-cluster-on-microsoft-azure/ ... View more

@Mark Thorson Make sure that you modify the ambari.ini for agents to point to correct ambari server. Link /etc/ambari-agent/conf/ambari-agent.ini has ambari server address ... View more

@Zaher Mahdhi See this http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/Ambari-2.2.0.0/bk_Installing_HDP_AMB/content/_set_the_hostname.html ... View more

Please read this http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/Ambari-2.2.0.0/bk_Installing_HDP_AMB/content/_check_dns.html ... View more

@peter jaink https://github.com/cyanfr/dbvis_to_hortonworks_hiveserver2/wiki/How-I-Connected-DBVisualizer-9.2.2-on-Windows-to-Hortonwork-HiveServer2 ... View more

@Kunal Gaikwad That's the issue.. Whats the final resolution of the real problem? ... View more

@Kunal Gaikwad I suggest to wait for the final release of driver for centos7 ... View more