Chapter 2. High Availability for HDFS NameNode Using VMware

This document is intended for system administrators for configuring the Hadoop NameNode (NN) service for High Availability and also for configuring clients and other Hadoop services to be resil­ient while the NameNode fails over.

The Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) High Availability (HA) kit for VMware provides enterprise grade high availability of the NameNode Service as part of the HDP cluster.

To learn more,  see the following: High Availability for Hadoop

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