
This blog gives you information about Rack Awareness in Apache Hadoop. HDFS block placement uses rack awareness for fault tolerance by placing one block replica on a different rack. This ensures data availability during network switch failure or a partition within the cluster. Rack awareness is very helpful in...

Commissioning of nodes stand for adding new nodes in current cluster which operates your Hadoop framework. In contrast, Decommissioning of nodes stands for removing nodes from your cluster. This is very useful utility to handle node failure during the operation of Hadoop cluster without stopping entire Hadoop nodes in...