Hadoop Maintenance and Distributions

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
Distributions provide performance and functionality enhancements over the base open source code Apache provides. In this course, you'll learn about the various distributions available and common maintenance tasks in a Hadoop environment.

Target Audience
Individuals who wish to understand key concepts and features of Hadoop and its tools

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.7

Lesson Objectives

Hadoop Maintenance and Distributions

start the course

demonstrate how to perform metadata and data backups

create and delete snapshots

list common problems for Hadoop administrators

use the filesystem balancer tool to keep filesystem datanodes evenly balanced

remove a node from a Hadoop cluster

describe the benefits of distributions

list the components of a Cloudera distribution, including Impala, Crunch, Kite, and Cloudera Manager

name the components of a Hortonworks distribution, including Tez, Falcon, and Ambari

recall the benefits of the MapR distribution

perform Hadoop snapshot operations

Course Number:
df_hdra_a05_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate