Duration

3 days

Delivery

• Instructor Led Training
• Students must provide their own workstation

Target Audience

System Administrators

Course Overview

Learn MapR system administrator concepts and practices including planning, installation and configuration, load balancing and tuning as well as diagnosing and solving problems in your initial deployment. Learn how to eliminate downtime and performance bottlenecks, setup your Hadoop cluster with direct access NFS™, and enable point-in-time recovery with MapR snapshots. Respond to MapR users by diagnosing, configuring, and solving real world problems in your deployment. At the end of this course, you will have the option to take the MapR Certified Administrator (MCA) exam to verify and certify your expertise.

Course Outline

• Overview of MapR Administration and Management
• Introduction to MapReduce and Apache Hadoop
• Basics of MapR Architecture
• MapR Installation
• Managing Services
• Managing Nodes
• Tuning MapReduce
• Working with Volumes, Snapshots and Mirrors
• Managing Remote Clusters
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting
• Disaster Recovery

Course Syllabus

Day 1

• Overview of MapR administration
• MapReduce & Apache Hadoop
• Explore the MapR Control System
• MapR Architecture
• MapR Volumes
• Planning a Cluster
• Installing a Cluster

Day 2

• Configuration
• Accessing Data on Cluster including via NFS Managing Services & Nodes
• Tuning MapReduce
• Snapshots

Day 3

• Mirrors
• Working with a Remote Cluster
• Cluster Monitoring & Troubleshooting
• Disaster Recovery