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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Hadoop Administrator's Guide
  3. Verifying the pre-requisites and best practices for the Hadoop plug-in for NetBackup
  4. Best practices for deploying the Hadoop plug-in
Veritas NetBackup™ for Hadoop Administrator's Guide

Best practices for deploying the Hadoop plug-in

Consider the following when you deploy Hadoop plug-in and configure NetBackup for Hadoop:

  • Use consistent conventions for hostnames of backup hosts, media servers, and master server. For example, if you are using the hostname as hadoop.veritas.com (FQDN format) use the same everywhere.

  • Add the entries of all the NameNodes and DataNodes to the /etc/hosts file on all the backup hosts. You must add the hostname in FQDN format.

    Or

    Add the appropriate DNS entries in the /etc/resolv.conf file.

  • Always specify the NameNode and DataNodes in FQDN format.

  • Ping all the nodes (use FQDN) from the backup hosts.

  • Hostname and port of the NameNode must be same as you have specified with the http address parameter in the core-site.xml of the Hadoop cluster.

  • Ensure the following for a Hadoop cluster that is enabled with SSL (HTTPS):

    • A valid certificate exists on the backup host that contains the public keys from all the nodes of the Hadoop cluster.

    • For a Hadoop cluster that uses CRL, ensure that the CRL is valid and not expired.

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