[HBASE-17272] Doc how to run Standalone HBase over an HDFS instance; all daemons in one JVM but persisting to an HDFS instance

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: documentation
• Release Note: Adds section at http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#standalone.over.hdfs on how to make standalone persist to an hdfs instance (where standalone is all daemons in the one jvm).
• Assignee: Michael Stack
• Reporter: Michael Stack
• Created: 07/Dec/16 05:28
• Updated: 08/Dec/16 06:22
• Resolved: 07/Dec/16 18:19

Description

It is possible to run hbase in standalone mode – all daemons in the one JVM (Master+RegionServers+ZooKeeper) – but persisting to HDFS rather than the usual local filesystem. That this works was news to me. This configuration is wanted for the default deploy of the timeline server v2. The standalone mode hbase shoudl be good enough for light loading. The persistence to HDFS makes it so data can live across the coming and goings of nodes.

This issue is about doc'ing how to setup this config.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: YARN-5304 Ship single node HBase config option with single startup command
• is depended upon by: YARN-5980 Update documentation for single node hbase deploy