@Dear Jay now its more clear - but why? what is the reason that we shouldn't install zoo on kafka ? second can we install zoo on data node machine ? ( when zoo is dedicated and serve only to kafka ) ... View more

@Dear Jay - Just want to clear this we want to installed 3 zookeepers servers that serve only kafka ( and not other application ) in that case can we install the 3 zookeepers servers on 3 kafka hosts ? or we need to dedicated a new hosts ( without kafka ) for the new zookeepers servers? if we cant installed the zookeeper servers ( that are only server the kafka ) on kafka hosts can you please explain why? ... View more

@Dear Jay - Apache Kafka 2.0.0 , is it the same version of confluent 2.0.0 ? ... View more

@dear jay - about - Make sure you allocate sufficient JVM memory. A good starting point is 4GB. , which parameter in ambari need to find in order to set the value to 4G? ... View more

@dear Jay in the document ( https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP3/HDP-3.1.0/release-notes/content/comp_versions.html ) I see the kafka version - Apache Kafka 2.0.0 , is it the same version of confluent 2.0.0 ? ... View more

@dear Jay in the document I see the kafka version - Apache Kafka 2.0.0 , is it the same version of confluent 2.0.0 ? ... View more

@Dear jay so from the document we see "When using ZooKeeper with Kafka you should dedicate ZooKeeper to Kafka, and not use ZooKeeper for any other components. " this mean - if we install the zookeeper on kafka then zookeeper must serve only kafka machines ? , am I correct ? second - I guess - it is much more better to install the zoo servers on machines that not have other services - for example to install the zoo on clean machine with only redhat OS - am I right here ? ... View more

@dear Jay about - Do not run ZooKeeper on a server where Kafka is running. " , can you tell me which document from hortonworks or confluent support this? I mean is it official statement ? ... View more