I ran into this exact issue and didn't see a resolution here but wanted to update the thread for anyone that comes looking in the future: I am setting up HDF on an Azure IaaS cluster and had the same issue of Zookeeper unable to bind to the port. In my case I believe it was cloud network configuration that was blocking communication. Switching to using internal IPs for my VMs inside of /etc/hosts for all my nodes (rather than the public IPs I was using before) solved the issue. ... View more