@Daniel Vielvoye it's not yet supported but in general you can refer to this api to add metrics https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AMBARI/Metrics+Collector+API+Specification ... View more

do you have directory /opt/lucidworks-hdpsearch? Please refer to link I provided to install SOLR. On non Sandbox you have to install it. Just follow directions in the link, it was tested many times on latest sandbox. yum install -y lucidworks-hdpsearch sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -mkdir /user/solr sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -chown solr /user/solr ... View more

full classname including package name i.e. "com.mypackage.MyClass". Please refer to http://storm.apache.org/documentation/Running-topologies-on-a-production-cluster.html @keerthana gajarajakumar ... View more

@zblanco @Rafael Coss it makes sense to add java classpath to your tutorial as it's a common gotcha with new users. Please refer to the Ali Bajwa's tutorial where he addressed it with JAVA_HOME ... View more

cost of typical disk vs. SAN backed disk would be cost prohibitive. @Sunile Manjee ... View more

@Sunile Manjee SAN is terrible for Hadoop go with direct attached or Isilon NAS. SAN suffers from busy neighbor aside from being a shared pool of storage, it's outside of namenode's control so blocks can move around and lose data locality, latency can also be an issue and final thought, direct attached disk is redundant by many disks, so you can tolerate failure by having more disk. Quick search led to this http://hortonworks.com/blog/thinking-about-the-hdfs-vs-other-storage-technologies/ and more http://www.infoworld.com/article/2609694/application-development/never--ever-do-this-to-hadoop.html Here's our official doc http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.3.2/bk_cluster-planning-guide/content/hardware-for-slave.1.html I guess one thing more to mention is that busy neighbor is also a problem in reverse, you will affect the other applications running on your SAN. ... View more

@Ram D do patches on minor versions, do them via one host at a time, enable HA on your cluster. ... View more

@Gerd Koenig the only advice I have for you as this is a unique use case is to try and then post an article :). ... View more

@Gerd Koenig are you following similar steps as this guide? You should be able to see the table from both places https://community.hortonworks.com/content/kbentry/14806/working-with-hbase-and-hive-wip.html ... View more