Thank you very much, @Lester Martin and @gdeleon, for the explanations and suggestions. I've tried the HDP Sandbox per student solution, and while it works, there's a bit of overhead with VM management. I'm wondering though, is there another path to a minimum multi-user Hadoop environment for a class environment, whether it's using HDP Sandbox or something of this sort. It is great to have Ambari and everything else that comes with HDP Sandbox. ... View more