Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP)
This topic helps in the preparation to install Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP).
If you are installing the HDP package, follow the Getting Ready, Meet Minimum System Requirements, Prepare the Environment, Using a Local Repository and Obtaining Public Repositories sections from the installation guide of your platform. For the Apache Ambari Installation for IBM® Power Systems guide and Apache Ambari Installation guide for the x86 platform, see Hortonworks Documentation website for the HDP version you are using.
Scale integration deviation requirement:
- Maximum Open Files Requirements
Set the maximum number of open file descriptors to 65535.
- When HDP is integrated with IBM Spectrum® Scale, there is no Secondary NameNode.
- For specific changes related to Kernel, SELinux, and NTP, password-less ssh and User/group id, see IBM Spectrum Scale file system.