What is Hadoop? Hadoop Solution Brief Nutanix 2U High-Density Block

Hadoop Solution Brief
Nutanix 2U High-Density Block
What is Hadoop?
The Apache™ Hadoop™ project develops
open-source software for reliable, scalable,
distributed computing. The Apache Hadoop
Why Virtualize Hadoop Nodes?
software library is a framework that allows for the
Boost Hardware utilization
model. It is designed to scale up from single
Bare metal Hadoop deployments average 10-20% CPU utilization, a major waste of hardware
resources and datacenter space. Virtualizing Hadoop allows for better hardware utilization and
flexibility.
local computation and storage. Rather than rely on
distributed processing of large data sets across
clusters of computers using a simple programming
servers to thousands of machines, each offering
hardware to deliver high availability, the library
itself is designed to detect and handle failures at
the application layer, delivering a highly-available
Dynamically Grow and Shrink Capacity
Expand and contract MapReduce data crunching capacity with the addition and removal of nodes
based on load. Avoid the perils of physical server inflexibility.
service on top of a cluster of computers, each of
which may be prone to failures.
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Allow DevOps & IT Ops to live harmony
Big Data scientists demand performance, reliability, and a flexible scale model. IT Ops relies on
virtualization to tame server sprawl, increase utilization, encapsulate workloads, manage capacity
growth, and mitigate disruptive hardware downtime. By virtualizing Hadoop, Data Scientists and
IT Ops mutually achieve all objectives while preserving autonomy and independence for their
respective charters.
Isolate jobs – Make Hadoop and Enterprise Apps play nice
Buggy MapReduce jobs can quickly saturate hardware resources, creating havoc for remaining jobs in
the queue. Virtualizing Hadoop clusters encapsulates and isolates MapReduce jobs from other
important sorting runs.
Contracts
Enterprise
“Dark Data”
Partner, Employee
Customer, Supplier
Credit
Weather
Transactions
Monitoring
Sensor
Commercial
Public
Population
Economic
Industry
Sentiment
Social Media
Network
How will Hadoop
help my business?
Everyone knows that data is growing exponentially.
What’s not so clear is how to unlock the value it
holds. Hadoop is the answer. Developed by
architect Doug Cutting, Hadoop is open source
Batch Scheduling & Stacked workloads
Allow all workloads and applications to co-exist, e.g. Hadoop, virtual desktops and servers. Schedule
MapReduce job runs during off-peak hours to take advantage of idle night time and weekend hours
that would otherwise go to waste.
software that enables distributed parallel
processing of huge amounts of data across
inexpensive, commodity servers. With Hadoop, no
data is too big. And in today’s hyper-connected
world where people and businesses are creating
more and more data every day, Hadoop’s ability to
New Hadoop Economics
grow virtually without limits means businesses and
Bare metal implementations are expensive and difficult to predict size and scale. Downtime and
underutilized CPU consequences of physical servers can jeopardize project viability. Virtualizing
Hadoop reduces complexity and ensures success for sophisticated projects with a scale-out grow as
you go model – a perfect fit for Big Data projects
all their data.
organizations can now unlock potential value from
Nutanix & Hadoop = EnterpriseGrade Big Data
Business Continuity and Data Protection:
As Hadoop clusters gradually become mission critical, enterprise-grade data management features are
essential ingredients for successful big data projects. Nutanix has built-in thin provisioning, snapshots,
clones, compression, and array-level replication that complements Hadoop projects that mature from
PoC to production.
High Availability:
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Hadoop Solution Brief
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Distributed file system name nodes are single points of failure. Nutanix has built-in network
RAID and high-availability features to secure all pieces of Hadoop data, including the file system
name node.
Change Management:
Traditional deployment models make it very difficult to run multiple MapReduce jobs side by side. Nutanix
allows you to create parallel MapReduce branches that can execute simultaneously on the same
production data using Nutanix Snapshots and FastClone capabilities.
Combine Hadoop with your Data Sources
Programmers
Data Scientists
Power Users
Business Users
Developer Environments
Business Intelligence Tools
Extract, Transform
File Copy
Integrated Data Warehouse
Extract, Transform, Load
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Blazing fast performance
Start with 2,000 MB/s of sequential throughput
in a compact 2U 4-node cluster. A Terasort
benchmark yields 250 MB/s in the same
2U cluster.
Linear Scale-out Performance
Throughput scales linearly by stacking
more blocks.
2x better throughput compared to closest bare
metal equivalents.
Nutanix Complete Cluster
at a Glance
Nutanix SAN-Free architecture:
Sensor
Date
Blogs
Emails
Web
Date
Docs
PDFs
Images
Videos
Raw Data Streams
CRM
SCM
ERP
Legacy
Delivers best of both worlds: local bus speed
performance to virtualized Hadoop workloads with
all the benefits of shared storage.
3rd
Party
Operational Systems
Scale with Your Business, One Node at a Time
Time-sliced clusters:
Like Amazon EC2, Nutanix clusters coupled with
VMware vCloud Director, can run Hadoop and
other virtualized workloads on the same shared
physical hardware.
High-density Hadoop:
Nutanix uses a hyperscale server architecture in
which 8 sockets of Intel fit in a single 2U spread
over 4 motherboards. Coupled with data archiving
and compression, Nutanix can shrink Hadoop
hardware footprints by up to 4x and reduce
completion times by 5x. Large clusters set up in
hours, not months.
Software Defined Data Tiering and
Compression:
Place data on the best performing Flash tier for
most frequently accessed data. Compresse cold
data on conventional high-capacity spinning disks.
Maximize the performance/cost advantages of
every storage medium ( PCIe Flash, SSDs, HDDs ).
Flash SSDs for fast NoSQL:
Business reports created from roll-up summaries posted to NoSQL databases like HBase are typically
memory and I/O constrained. Nutanix direct-attached Flash and local SATA SSD storage help accelerate
data sorting with its innovative heat-optimized tiering technology. Data is migrated up and down tiers
transparently to assist with I/O-thirsty workloads.
Intuitive Cluster Management:
Nutanix employs an Apple-like approach to managing large clusters, including a modern dashboard
that displays a single pane of glass for servers and storage. This open-source Bonjour mechanism
auto-discovers and configures new nodes as they enter and leave the cluster.
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Just-in-time turnkey infrastructure:
Capacity augmentation reduces unnecessary
up-front planning and capacity waste, enabling
a more predictable and manageable sizing
approach. Now you can dynamically grow or
shrink with a single click with zero downtime
to end-users or application availability.