I use BigDataLite for a lot of my sandboxing work. This is a OVA provided by Oracle which can be run on VirtualBox, VMWare, etc and has the Cloudera Hadoop platform (CDH) along with all of Oracle’s Big Data goodies including Big Data Discovery and Big Data Spatial and Graph (BDSG). Something that kept tripping me up during my work with BDSG was that HBase would become unavailable. Not being an HBase expert and simply using it as a data store for my property graph data, I wrote it off as mistakes on my part.

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(Previously, previously) I’ve got a bunch of existing VirtualBox and VMWare VMs that I want to run on Proxmox. Eventually I’ll migrate them to containers, but for the time being run them as “fat” VMs using Proxmox’s KVM virtualisation. After copying the OVA files that I had to the server, I uncompressed them: root@proxmox01:/data04/vms/bdl44-biwa# cd ../bdl44 root@proxmox01:/data04/vms/bdl44# ll total 27249328 -rw------- 1 root root 27903306752 Jun 1 10:14 BigDataLite440.ova root@proxmox01:/data04/vms/bdl44# tar -xf BigDataLite440.

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