hi all We are using the hortonworks kits for our hadoop cluster ( HDP - 2.6.4 - HDP 3.1 ) I just wondering if any of kafka versions in HDP 2.X / 3.X must have a zookeeper servers?? Or maybe some kafka version can works without zookeeper?? ... View more

we have HDP version 2.6.4 in our cluster cluster include 285 data node machines and 3 kafka machines for now zookeeper servers are installed on the masters machines and zookeepers are not independent machines but since this is very important production cluster we think to separate the zookeeper from the masters machines and install the zookeeper servers on separate servers to be independent machines am I right here? ... View more

hi all we download the HDP packages from HDP 2.6.4 version and we want to installed only a new 3 zookeeper servers on new machines ( without ambari ) how to exclude the zookeeper packages from the HDP 2.6.4 kit so we can install only the zookeeper servers on the new machines ... View more

hi all can you upgrade HDP 2.6.4 to 3.1 and stay with ambari 2.6.1? ... View more