Yep, create a new one defined the way you want the partitions to be and then insert into that new one using dynamic partitioning and you'll be good to go. Good luck and happy Hadooping. ... View more

I would strongly suggest you look at HBase's snapshotting model as detailed at https://hbase.apache.org/book.html#ops.snapshots. The snapshot create process is very fast as it does NOT create a copy of the underlying HFiles on HDFS (just keeps HDFS snapshot "pointers" to them). Then you can use the ExportSnapshot process that will copy the needed underlying HFiles over to the second HBase cluster. This model won't utilize any extra space on the source cluster (well, delete the snapshot once you are done!) or on the target cluster as you'll have to get all those HFiles created which is what this process does. Good luck and happy HBasing! ... View more

As @gdeleon suggested... "that dog won't hunt". Basically, you'll need at least two YARN containers for each Hive user/query going on to house the applicationMaster and another container to start doing some actual work (the first one there is getting their application into the "Running" state). The "Accepted" state means those users were able to get a container for their applicationMasters, but then there isn't enough space for YARN to grant enough actual containers to do much else. Again, it is just isn't designed for this. A better solution would be to let each student have their own HDP Sandbox (and the won't need to allocate 32GB VMs). Good luck and happy Hadooping! ... View more

Probably for using HCatalog with can be extremely useful for Pig programmers even if they don't want to use Hive and just leverage this for schema management instead of defining AS clauses in their LOAD commands? Just as likely this is something hard-coded into Ambari? If you really don't want Hive, I bet you can just delete it after installation. For giggles, I stood up an HDFS-only HDP 3.1.0 cluster for https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/245432/is-it-possible-to-install-only-hdfs-on-linux-machi.html?childToView=245544#answer-245544 and just added Pig (required YARN, MR, Tez & ZK, but that makes sense!) and did NOT require Hive to be added as seen below. Good luck and happy Hadooping! ... View more

Not sure how you got into this shape, but the balancer can fix it. https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.7/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/HdfsUserGuide.html#Balancer ... View more