I'm already using Sandbox on a Linux laptop to learn Hortonworks. But that is at home. At work we have an MSDN subscription so we have some credits each month and several of us were thinking of working the sandbox tutorials on Azure at work - a group learning experience as we are brining in Hadoop. However on Azure, this is the problem I encounter - After standing up the sandbox on Azure following the instructions, I am able to login to Ambari OK. I can open the ssh OK. I can upload the .csv files for the first tutorial to /tmp/maria_dev/data OK. But then I hit a wall submitting the first query. It just sits there... forever. No log, nothing. When I check Azure's disk subsystem, it doesn't appear to be doing anything at all. The VM is set for Size A5 standard, per the instructions. This has 2 cores, 14 GB RAM and 4 data disks for a max 4x500 IOPS, and also has load balancing. But it doesn't seem to want to process Hive queries, or else it is excruciatingly slow at doing so. My l'il 'ol laptop can finish that first query to load a .csv file in less than 1 minute. After 5 minutes I just decided I was burning credits watching Azure do nothing but spin the meter. Has anyone encountered a similar problem? Is there some step I missed? Some action I have to do with the disk subsystem? Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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