Re: HBase cluster replication firewall rules

[Jonathan Hsieh <jo...@cloudera.com>]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Levy Meny <Me...@comverse.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are using HBase replication (over Apache 0.94.2) between two sites and
> we need to define firewall rules between the two sites.
>
> Can anyone provide some information regarding the ports that are used
> between the sites?
>
> sure. replications is push oriented from site 1 to site 2 I believe so
outbound and inbound ports need to be done correctly.

>
>
> Our understand is:
>
> Replication is from site1  to site2.
>
>
>
> *         Region Server (site1) to Region Server (site2), port 60020
>
> Site 1 pushes data to site 2 here, so site 1 needs to open outbound to and
site 2 needs to open it inbound.

>
>
> *         Region Server (site1) to ZooKeeper (site2), port 2181
>
> yes, 2181 is the default zk client port, and site1's rs's need to be able
to contact this to get to the rs's in site 2 it should ship to.

>
>
> *         ZooKeeper (site1) to ZooKeeper (site2) Which of the following
> ports do we need: 2181, 2888, 3888?
>
> ZK in site 1 and ZK in site 2 are separate quorums and do not directly
talk so the peering ports (2888 and 3888) do not need to be opened.

>
>
> Also, what protocol is used (is IPC simple generic TCP?)
>
> TCP

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// Jonathan Hsieh (shay)
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