Hi all.
I am trying to run xen server in hdfs but I am not sure how to do it? any
ideas/help
Thanks.
Shanice.

What do you mean by run Xen server in HDFS? Do you mean you want to use Xen to allocate data nodes?

--Bobby

On 7/11/11 8:37 AM, "shanice msuya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi all.
I am trying to run xen server in hdfs but I am not sure how to do it? any ideas/help
Thanks.
Shanice.

I mean I want to place some virtual machines inside Xen server, but I want
Xen to run ontop of HDFS not a normal linux file system. But I don't know
how to run Xen server in HDFS

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Robert Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  What do you mean by run Xen server in HDFS? Do you mean you want to use
> Xen to allocate data nodes?
>
> --Bobby
>
>
> On 7/11/11 8:37 AM, "shanice msuya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
> I am trying to run xen server in hdfs but I am not sure how to do it? any
> ideas/help
> Thanks.
> Shanice.
>
>

HDFS is not a normal file system.  Instead highly optimized for running
map-reduce.  As such, it uses replicated storage but imposes a write-once
model on files.

This probably makes it unsuitable as a primary storage for VM's.

What you need is either a conventional networked storage device or if
Hadoop-like capabilities are important then something like MapR which allows
complete NFS access to the file system while still being compatible with
Hadoop for running map-reduce programs.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:44 AM, shanice msuya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> I mean I want to place some virtual machines inside Xen server, but I want
> Xen to run ontop of HDFS not a normal linux file system. But I don't know
> how to run Xen server in HDFS
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Robert Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>>  What do you mean by run Xen server in HDFS? Do you mean you want to use
>> Xen to allocate data nodes?
>>
>> --Bobby
>>
>>
>> On 7/11/11 8:37 AM, "shanice msuya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all.
>> I am trying to run xen server in hdfs but I am not sure how to do it? any
>> ideas/help
>> Thanks.
>> Shanice.
>>
>>
>