We do understand the distributed transaction manager has to be started. The problem is that the tephra binary is not provided by HDP 2.6.x repositories and we cannot find any recipe to add it manually. All the other settings are already applied. Check: [centos@gateway ~]$ yum provides '*/bin/hbase' Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors * base: mirror.rackspeed.de * epel: mirror.23media.de * extras: mirror.alpix.eu * updates: mirror.alpix.eu ambari-metrics-collector-2.5.0.3-7.x86_64 : Ambari Metrics Assembly Repo : ambari-2.5.0.3 Matched from: Filename : /usr/lib/ams-hbase/bin/hbase hbase_2_6_1_0_129-1.1.2.2.6.1.0-129.noarch : HBase is the Hadoop database. Use it when you need random, realtime read/write access to your Big Data. This project's goal is the hosting of very large tables -- billions of rows X millions : of columns -- atop clusters of commodity hardware. Repo : HDP-2.6.1.0 Matched from: Filename : /usr/hdp/2.6.1.0-129/hbase/bin/hbase [centos@gateway ~]$ yum provides '*/bin/tephra' Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.rackspeed.de * epel: mirror.23media.de * extras: mirror.alpix.eu * updates: mirror.alpix.eu No matches found ... View more