VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE) is the platform that runs scale-out clustered Hadoop applications. It provides the agility to change the configuration through a single console and the flexibility to scale up and out for both compute and storage resources with better reliability and security on the vSphere platform:
We categorize the Hadoop journey in three stages:
- Stage 1: This is what we call the piloting stage; typically the size of the cluster we see is under 20 nodes. In this stage, the customer is dabbling with Hadoop, trying to understand the value of Hadoop, and in many cases, prove the value of Hadoop ...
