The Hortonworks Sandbox is a personal, portable Hadoop environment that comes with a dozen interactive Hadoop tutorials. Sandbox includes many of the most exciting developments from the latest HDP distribution, packaged up in a virtual environment that you can get up and running in 15 minutes! Go to: hortonworks.com/sandbox for your free download

1. Hortonworks Sandbox
Startup Guide for VirtualBox
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2. Basics
1. Download and install VirtualBox
– www.virtualbox.org
2. Download Sandbox
– www.hortonworks.com/sandbox
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3. Import Sandbox VM
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4. Leave default settings -- especially
Networking
Note:
1. Only
Adapter 1 is
active
2. Set to NAT
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5. Increase Memory Allocation for Ambari and
Hbase
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6. Running Linux?
If you receive the error: “The kernel requires an X86-64 CPU, but only detected
i686 CPU. UNABLE TO BOOT,PLEASE USE A KERNEL APPROPRIATE FOR
YOUR CPU.”
Then make sure your Version of Linux is set to the version running on your
laptop.
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7. Now, Start Your VirtualMachine
You are given a
local web
address. Use
this in your
browser to get
to tutorials and
Sandbox GUI
Want to get into the Command Line to write your own MapReduce code or
install other packages? Here’s how you get to the login.
User Name: root
Password: hadoop
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8. Supported Browsers
• Internet Explorer 9
• Chrome 25
• Safari 6+
• Firefox (latest stable version)
• NOTE: Sandbox DOES NOT RUN on Internet Explorer
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9. Here’s how you begin
Enter IP Address
from the
VirtualBox start
screen. Note, your
IP address may be
different
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10. Here’s how you begin
Click here to start
tutorials
Click here to learn
about Ambari
Already know what
you’re doing?
Click here to get to
Sandbox and HDP
GUI
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11. Find a tutorial
Scroll down in the
left hand
navigation to find a
tutorial.
Click Open
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12. Follow along in a tutorial
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13. Open tutorial in separate tab
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14. Move cursor to left window to bring tutorial
window back in the same pane
Click on
yellow line to
bring tutorial
pane back
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15. Done with the built in tutorials?
• Visit our partner gallery to get hands on with tools and tutorials
from our partners:
http://hortonworks.com/products/hortonworkssandbox/#tutorial_gallery
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16. Want to add your own tutorials?
• Visit our GitHub site and contribute your own tutorials:
https://github.com/hortonworks/hadoop-tutorials
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17. Here’s how you begin
Chrome has an “Incognito Mode”. This can help eliminate some conflicts.
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18. Thanks for using the Sandbox!
Help:
Sandbox Forums are available for assistance:
http://hortonworks.com/community/forums/forum/hortonworks-sandbox/
Contribute:
Want to develop and publish your own tutorial? Contribute
through GitHub to:
https://github.com/hortonworks/hadoop-tutorials
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