6. Deploy HDP HA Configurations

Use the instructions provided in this section to configure Full-Stack HA fail over resiliency for the HDP clients.

	Note
	Your Hadoop configuration directories are defined during the HDP installation. For details, see: Setting Up Hadoop Configuration.

Step 1: Edit the $HADOOP_CONF_DIR/hdfs-site.xml file to add the following properties:

Enable the HDFS client retry policy.

<property>
 <name>dfs.client.retry.policy.enabled</name>
 <value>true</value>
 <description> Enables HDFS client retry in case of NameNode failure.</description>
</property>

Configure protection for NameNode edit log.

<property>
 <name>dfs.namenode.edits.toleration.length</name>
 <value>8192</value>
 <description> Prevents corruption of NameNode edit log.</description>
</property>

Configure safe mode extension time.

<property>
 <name>dfs.safemode.extension</name>
 <value>10</value>
 <description> The default value (30 seconds) is applicable for very large clusters. For small to large clusters (upto 200 nodes), recommended value is 10 seconds.</description>
</property>

Ensure that the allocated DFS blocks persist across multiple fail overs.

<property>
 <name>dfs.persist.blocks</name>
 <value>true</value>
 <description>Ensure that the allocated DFS blocks persist across multiple fail overs.</description>
</property>

Configure delay for first block report.

<property>
 <name>dfs.blockreport.initialDelay</name>
 <value>10</value>
 <description> Delay (in seconds) for first block report.</description>
</property>

Step 2: Modify the following property in the $HADOOP_CONF_DIR/core-site.xml file:

<property>
 <name>fs.checkpoint.period</name>
 <value>3600</value>
 <description> The number of seconds between two periodic checkpoints.</description>
</property>

This will ensure that the checkpoint is performed on an hourly basis.

Step 3: Edit the $HADOOP_CONF_DIR/mapred-site.xml file to add the following properties:

Enable the JobTracker’s safe mode functionality.

<property>
 <name>mapreduce.jt.hdfs.monitor.enable</name>
 <value>true</value>
 <description> Enable the JobTracker to go into safe mode when the NameNode is not responding.</description>
</property>

Enable retry for JobTracker clients (when the JobTracker is in safe mode).

<property>
 <name>mapreduce.jobclient.retry.policy.enabled</name>
 <value>true</value>
 <description> Enable the MapReduce job client to retry job submission when the JobTracker is in safe mode.</description>
</property>

Enable recovery of JobTracker’s queue after it is restarted.

<property>
 <name>mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover</name>
 <value>true</value>
 <description> Enable the JobTracker to recover its queue after it is restarted.</description>
</property>

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