Installing Hadoop

Idea: To have the hadoop (the ligth-version) up and running
Background: https://hadoop.apache.org/

Step 1 : download and install virtualBox

Downloads: A virtual box from Oracle https://www.virtualbox.org/

Choose the appropriate pakages (VirtualBox platform packages) for your OS.

You will properbly not need the 'VirtualBox 5.0.14 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack', which is for USB and clipboard support.

Step 2 : Download an Image to the virtualbox of Hadoop-light

Downloads: Caution the file is 11 GB i.e. this take a long time to download.

An image for the virtualbox https://hortonworks.com/downloads/ - the theacher have the file on an usb-key.

Open virtualbox - import OVA file (File-> import applience -> "choose your file")

Configuration before start import:

• set the host operation system to the one your are sitting on e.g. 'windows 10 64bit'
• ajust the number of CPU you would like to use 2 should be sufficient
• ajust the size of the memory between 2 GB - 4GB is OK

Then It should work.

When logging in (through ambari) use username 'maria_dev' and password 'maria_dev'

Additional

You could try this http://hortonworks.com/hadoop-tutorial/learning-the-ropes-of-the-hortonworks-sandbox/