and finally: cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo) ... View more

Regarding the processor: it is a DS1 v2 (1 vCPU 3.5GB): Dv2-Series instances are based on the latest generation 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) processor, and with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 can go to 3.2 GHz. Dv2-Series and D-Series are ideal for applications that demand faster CPUs, better local disk performance, or higher memories, and offer a powerful combination for many enterprise-grade applications. ... View more

here is a list of the files in yum.repos.d. Why remove all HDP repos ?? I suggest to eliminate the 2 public-repo-1... repos and leave the hdp.repo (see RHEL7 content below). -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 306 May 31 2017 ambari.repo -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 574 Jan 8 06:49 hdp.repo -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 296 May 17 06:36 public-repo-1.hortonworks.com_HDP_centos7_2.x_updates_2.6.4.0_HDP-2.6.4.0-91.xml.repo -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 242 May 17 06:09 public-repo-1.hortonworks.com_HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.22_repos_centos7.repo -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 358 Jan 5 00:08 redhat.repo -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 13955 Dec 3 2016 rh-cloud.repo Here is the content of the hdp.repo : it looks alright to me ? #VERSION_NUMBER=2.6.4.0-91 [HDP-2.6.4.0] name=HDP Version - HDP-2.6.4.0 baseurl=http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/HDP/centos7/2.x/updates/2.6.4.0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/HDP/centos7/2.x/updates/2.6.4.0/RPM-GPG-KEY/RPM-GPG-KEY-Jenkins enabled=1 priority=1 [HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.22] name=HDP-UTILS Version - HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.22 baseurl=http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.22/repos/centos7 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/HDP/centos7/2.x/updates/2.6.4.0/RPM-GPG-KEY/RPM-GPG-KEY-Jenkins enabled=1 priority=1 ... View more

Geoffrey, I am running Red Hat RHEL 7. So don't you think I should opt for the CentOS 7 repos ? ... View more

Geoffey, the Ambari Server is attached. Can you open it ? ambariserverlog.zip Thanks, Matthias ... View more

Hi Geoffrey, thanks so much. Can you please share your email address? So I will share the link to Google Drive with Ambari log files. Thanks, Matthias ... View more

Geoffey, all done. How can I best upload the amber-server.log from the Azure service ? It is a huge file ... View more

/etc/hosts looks alright on all nodes host -v -t A mtvm6.eastus.cloudapp.azure.com yields mtvm6.eastus.cloudapp.azure.com. 10 IN A 40.117.251.23 etc. so to me this looks ok ... ... View more

Geoffrey, I noted that a manual install on the master actually was successful. Can we conclude that there are connectivity problems ? Ping -c3 10.0.0.5 etc works but I could not successfully telnet from a node to the master. What kind of checks does it need from your perpective beyond successful ssh root@node ? Thanks again, Matthias ... View more

Geoffrey, thanks a lot for your help. I have followed every step in your list and then chose manual registration on the amber ui. It failed again with the following note: Registering with the server... Registration with the server failed. ... View more