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As of January 31, 2021, this tutorial references legacy products that no longer represent Cloudera’s current product offerings.

Please visit recommended tutorials:

• How to Create a CDP Private Cloud Base Development Cluster
• All Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) related tutorials

 

Introduction

This tutorial walks through the general approach for installing the Hortonworks Sandbox (HDP or HDF) onto VMware on your computer.

Prerequisites

• Download the Hortonworks Sandbox
• VMWare Installed, version 14 or newer
  • VMWare Workstation For Linux/Windows
  • VMWare Fusion For macOS
• A computer with minimum 10 GB RAM dedicated to the virtual machine

Outline

• Import Hortonworks Sandbox
  • VMWare Workstation
  • VMWare Fusion
• Update Virtual Machine Memory
• Enable Connected Data Architecture (CDA) - Advanced Topic
• Further Reading

Import Hortonworks Sandbox

VMWare Workstation

Open VMWare and select Open a Virtual Machine:

Browse and select the sandbox image you downloaded and click Open.

Next, you're given the opportunity to save the virtual machine under a different name and/or location. After changes are made, click Import. You should then see the importing progress dialog:

Once import is complete, you will see the newly imported machine listed.

Select the virtual machine you want to start and click Play virtual machine.

When the virtual machine fully boots up, you will see a similar screen as below.

Enter the URL into your browser - you're ready to begin using the sandbox.

Welcome to the Hortonworks Sandbox!

VMWare Fusion

Open VMWare and navigate to File -> Import... -> Choose File....

Select the sandbox image you downloaded and click Open, then Continue.

You are given the opportunity to save the virtual machine under a different name/location. If you have no preference in renaming, you can just leave the default name and click Save. You should then see the importing progress dialog:

Once finished, the following screen is displayed:

Click Finish to start your new virtual machine.

When the virtual machine fully boots up, you will see a similar screen as below.

Enter the URL into your browser - you're ready to begin using the sandbox.

Welcome to the Hortonworks Sandbox!

Update Virtual Machine Memory

Make sure the virtual machine is shutdown before modifying configurations. Right-click on virtual machine and select Settings....

First we must upgrade the virtual image to be able to upgrade the memory click on compatibility:

Next, click upgrade:

next return to "Show All" and select Processors & Memory and modify memory accordingly.

Finally restart the virtual machine for changes to take place.

Enable Connected Data Architecture (CDA) - Advanced Topic

Prerequisite:

• A computer with minimum 22 GB of RAM dedicated to the virtual machine
• Have already deployed the latest HDP/HDF sandbox
• Update virtual machine settings to minimum 22 GB (22528 MB)

Hortonworks Connected Data Architecture (CDA) allows you to play with both data-in-motion (CDF) and data-at-rest (HDP) sandboxes simultaneously.

HDF (Data-In-Motion)

Data-In-Motion is the idea where data is being ingested from all sorts of different devices into a flow or stream. While the data is moving throughout this flow, components or as NiFi calls them “processors” are performing actions on the data to modify, transform, aggregate and route it. Data-In-Motion covers a lot of the preprocessing stage in building a Big Data Application. For instance, data preprocessing is where Data Engineers work with the raw data to format it into a better schema, so Data Scientists can focus on analyzing and visualizing the data.

HDP (Data-At-Rest)

Data-At-Rest is the idea where data is not moving and is stored in a database or robust datastore across a distributed data storage such as Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Instead of sending the data to the queries, the queries are being sent to the data to find meaningful insights. At this stage data, data processing and analysis occurs in building a Big Data Application.

Run Script to Enable CDA

The sandbox comes prepackaged with the script needed to enable CDA. Assuming you have already deployed the HDP sandbox, you need to SSH into Sandbox VM using password hadoop:

• Issue command: ssh root@sandbox-hdp.hortonworks.com -p 22

Note: if you originally deployed HDF sandbox, replace sandbox-hdp with sandbox-hdf in the ssh command above.

• Run bash script:

cd /sandbox/deploy-scripts/
sh enable-vm-cda.sh

The script output will be similar to:

Further Reading

• Video: How to deploy sandbox using VMWare
• Sandbox Architecture
• Follow-up with the tutorial: Learning the Ropes of the HDP Sandbox
• Browse available tutorials

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