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Posted to dev@kafka.apache.org by Ranjan Sen <ra...@hotmail.com> on 2014/10/02 03:54:20 UTC

setting up brokers

I have a 5 node cluster with one Jab tracker and another namenode; zookeeper on job tracker, namenode and a slave (of the three). 
Can you advise me on what nodes should I use for installing kafka? I am looking for at least 2 replications. 
Ranjan

Re: setting up brokers

Posted by Gwen Shapira <gs...@cloudera.com>.

We typically install Kafka on its own cluster, although it can use the
existing ZK (if its not too busy).
Otherwise Kafka can suffer from disk contention with the slaves and
CPU/memory contention with the masters.

If this is just test cluster, installing Kafka on the slaves is probably fine.

Gwen

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Ranjan Sen <ra...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have a 5 node cluster with one Jab tracker and another namenode; zookeeper on job tracker, namenode and a slave (of the three).
> Can you advise me on what nodes should I use for installing kafka? I am looking for at least 2 replications.
> Ranjan