How to kick off Hadoop’s rack awareness
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Hadoop, an Open Source framework for reliable, scalable, distributed computing and data storage, has a nice feature called rack awareness. This means nothing more than that you're able to widely spread your Hadoop cluster over multiple machines within different racks and even different data centers that are worlds apart from each other. Sadly this isn't well documented as almost anything regarding Hadoop since it's under heavy development and because of the few people that are actually working with Hadoop compared to other huge Open Source projects.
Anyway, kicking off Hadoop's rack awareness is no big deal in general. Here's how to ...