Pivotal: Virtualize Big Data to Make the Elephant Dance

Virtualize Big Data to
Make the Elephant
Dance
June Yang, Senior Director of Product Management, VMWare
Dan Baskett, Senior Consultant Technologist, Pivotal

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Unstructured Data is exploding… Hadoop is driving growth
Hadoop adoption is ramping

Unstructured data driving growth

Don't know Other
2%
2%
Testing
2%

Complex unstructured data
forecasted to outpace structured
relational data by 10x by 2020

Piloting
18%
Inproduction
23%

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Structured

2017

2018

Unstructured

2019

Evaluating
53%

2020

Source: Forrester Survey of 60 CIOs , September 2011

• Unstructured data explosion and Hadoop capabilities causing CIOs to reconsider
Enterprise data strategy
•
•

Gartner predicts +800% data growth over next 5 years
Hadoop’s ability to process raw data at cost presents intriguing value prop for CIOs


2

Broad Application of Hadoop Technology
Use Cases

Vertical Industries

Log Processing / Click
Stream Analytics

Financial Services

Machine Learning /
sophisticated data mining

Internet Retailer

Web crawling / text
processing

Pharmaceutical / Drug
Discovery

Extract Transform Load
(ETL) replacement

Mobile / Telecom

Image / XML message
processing

Scientific Research

General archiving /
compliance

Social Media

Hadoop is a platform that will revolutionize how Enterprises handle data


3

The Big Data Journey in the Enterprise
Integrated

Stage 3: Cloud Analytics Platform
• Serve many departments
• Often part of mission critical workflow
• Fully integrated with analytics/BI tools
Stage 2: Hadoop Production
• Serve a few departments
• More use cases
• Growing # and size of clusters
• Core Hadoop + components

Stage1: Hadoop Piloting
• Often start with line of business
• Try 1 or 2 use cases to explore
the value of Hadoop

0 node


10’s

100’s

Scale
4

Deploy Hadoop Clusters in Minutes


5

One click to scale out your cluster on the fly


6

Customize your Hadoop/Hbase Cluster
Customize with Cluster
Specification File


7

Cluster Spec File Details
Storage configuration

Choice of shared storage or Local disk

High availability option

# of Hadoop nodes
Resource configuration


Cluster Specification File
"groups":[
{ "name":"master",
"roles":[
"hadoop_namenode",
"hadoop_jobtracker”],
"storage": {
"type": "SHARED”, sizeGB": 20},
"instance_type":MEDIUM,
"instance_num":1,
"ha":true},
{"name":"worker",
"roles":[
"hadoop_datanode",
"hadoop_tasktracker"
],
"instance_type":SMALL,
"instance_num":5,
"ha":false
…

8

Your Choice of Hadoop Distributions and Tools
Distributions

Community Projects

• Flexibility to choose and try out major distributions
• Support for multiple projects
• Open architecture to welcome industry participation
• Contributing Hadoop Virtualization Extensions (HVE) to open source
community

9

Proactive monitoring with VCOPs
 Proactively monitoring through VCOPs
 Gain comprehensive visibility
 Eliminate manual processes with intelligent automation
 Proactively manage operations
 Alternatively, use monitoring tools like Nagios, Ganglia


10

Beyond day 1 - Automation of Hadoop Cluster lifecycle management

…

Deploy

Custo
mize

Scaling

Tune
config
uration

Load
data
Execut
e jobs


11

Integrated
• Serve a few departments
• More use cases
• Growing # and size of clusters
• Core Hadoop + components

 Rapid deployment
 On the fly cluster resizing
 Choice of Hadoop distros
 Automation of cluster lifecycle

0 node


10’s

100’s

Scale
12

Achieve HA for the Entire Hadoop Stack

Zookeepr

(Coordination)

Pig

(Data Flow)

BI Reporting
Hive

(SQL)

RDBMS
Hive MetaDB

HCatalog

Hcatalog MDB

MapReduce (Job Scheduling/Execution System)
HBase (Key-Value store)
HDFS

(Hadoop Distributed File System)

Jobtracker
Namenode

Management Server

ETL Tools

Server

• vSphere HA is battle-tested high availability technology
• Single mechanism to achieve HA for the entire Hadoop stack
• One click to enable HA and/or FT


13

Challenges of Running Hadoop in Enterprises
Dept A: recommendation engine

Production

Production

Test

Log files

Experimentation

Transaction data

Dept B: ad targeting

Social data


On the horizon…
NoSQL

Real time SQL

…

Test

Experimentation

Historical cust behavior

Pain Points:
1. Cluster sprawling
2. Redundant common data in
separate clusters
3. Difficult use the right tool for
the right problem
4. Peak compute and I/O
resource is limited to number
of nodes in each independent
cluster
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What if you can…
Recommendation engine

Ad targeting

Production

Production

Test

Experimentation

Test

Experimentation


One physical platform to support multiple virtual
big data clusters

Experimentation
Production
recommendation engine

Test/Dev
Production
Ad Targeting

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Bigger is Better
 Hadoop is linearly scalable, more nodes, better performance,
for the same job, it will take
– 2 hour to complete on a 50 node cluster
– 1 hour to complete on a 100 node cluster
– 30 min to complete on a 200 node cluster


16

You may ask


What about differentiated SLAs
–
–



For production Hadoop jobs, need to ensure high priority
Lower priority of experimental Hadoop jobs.

Will I have a noisy neighbor problems with shared infrastructure
approach?


17

VM Containers with Isolation are a Tried and Tested
Approach
Reckless Workload 2

Hungry Workload 1

Noisy
Workload 3
VMware vSphere + Serengeti
Host

Host


Host

Host

Host

Host

Host

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Shared infrastructure: Three big types of Isolation are Required

 Resource Isolation
• Control the greedy noisy neighbor
• Reserve resources to meet needs
 Version Isolation
• Allow concurrent OS, App, Distro versions
 Security Isolation
• Provide privacy between users/groups
• Runtime and data privacy required

Host

Host


Host

Host

Host

Host

Host

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With virtualization, you can have your cake and eat it
too
 One physical platform to support
multiple virtual big data clusters

Experimentation

Compute
layer
Data
layer

Production

Test/Dev
Production
Ad Targeting


–
–

Low Priority
High Priority

–
–

Share data to minimize copying
Single infrastructure to
maintain
Bigger cluster for better
performance
Share hardware resource to
achieve higher utilization

 Virtualization ensures strong
isolation between clusters.
–
–
–
–


Resource isolation.
Failure isolation
Configure isolation
Security isolation

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Elastic Hadoop with Virtualization
VM

Hadoop Node

Combined
Storage/Com
pute

Unmodified Hadoop
node in a VM
 VM lifecycle
determined
by Datanode
 Limited elasticity


VM

VM

T1

Compute
VM

Storage
Separate Compute from
Storage
 Separate compute
from data
 Stateless compute
 Elastic compute

VM

VM

T2

Storage

Separate Virtual Compute Clusters
per tenant
 Separate virtual compute
 Compute cluster per tenant
 Stronger VM-grade security
and resource isolation

21

Scale in/out Hadoop dynamically
 Deploy separate compute clusters for different tenants sharing HDFS.
 Commission/decommission task trackers according to priority and
available resources
Job
Tracker

Job
Tracker

Compute layer

Compute
VM

Compute
VM

Dynamic resourcepool

Experimentation
Experimentation

Compute
VM

Compute
VM

Compute
VM

Compute
VM

Compute
VM

Compute
VM

Production

Production

Data layer


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Integrated

• Serve many departments
• Often part of mission critical workflow
• Fully integrated with analytics/BI tools
 High Availability
 Consolidation
 Differentiated SLAs
 Elastic Scaling


0 node


10’s

100’s

Scale
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Business
Intelligence

Cloud Analytics Platform

Machine
Learning

Real Time
Streams

CETAS

Automated
Models
Stream
Processing

E
T
L

Data Visualization
…

Real Time
Structured
Database

Data
Warehouse

Unstructured
and Batch
Processing

HDFS
Compute


Cloud Infrastructure
Storage

Networking

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Big Data Tools and Characteristics
Framework

Scale of
data

Scale of
Cluster

Computable
Data?

Local Disks?

Map-reduce:

100s PB

10s to 1,000s

Yes

Yes, for cost,
bandwidth and
availability

Big-SQL:

PB’s

10s to 100s

Some

Yes, for cost and
bandwidth

No-SQL:

Cassandra, hBase, …

Trilions
Of rows

10s to 100s

Some

Yes, for cost and
availability

In-Memory:

Billions of rows

10s-100s

Yes

Primarily
Memory

Hadoop

HawQ,, Aster Data, Impala,
…

Redis, Gemfire, Membase,
…


25

Choose a platform that…
Allows user to pick the right tools at the right
time
Put resources where needed based on SLA policy


26

In-house Hadoop as a Service – (Hadoop + Hadoop)
Production
ETL of log files

Ad hoc
data mining

Compute
layer
Data
layer

Production
HDFS

HDFS

Host


Host

Host

Host

Host

Host

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Integrated Big Data Production – (Mixed big data workloads)
Hadoop
batch analysis

Compute
layer
Data
layer

HBase
real-time queries
HDFS

NoSQL –
Cassandra
key-value
store

MPP DBMS –
Analysis of
structured data

Host


Host

Host

Host

Host

Host

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Integrated Hadoop and Webapps – (Big Data + Other Workloads)
Short-lived
Hadoop compute cluster

Compute
layer
Data
layer

Hadoop
compute cluster

Web servers
for ecommerce site

HDFS
Host


Host

Host

Host

Host

Host

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 Mixed workloads
 Right tool at the right time
 Flexible and elastic infrastrure

Integrated

 High Availability
 Consolidation
 Differentiated SLAs
 Elastic Scaling


0 node


10’s

100’s

Scale
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Learn More
 Download and try Serengeti
–

projectserengeti.org

• VMware Hadoop site
–

vmware.com/hadoop

• Hadoop performance on vSphere white
paper
–

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper
/hadoop-vsphere51-32hosts.pdf

• Hadoop virtualization extensions (HVE)
Whitepaper
–


http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper
/hadoop-vsphere51-32hosts.pdf

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Thank You!
June Yang

Senior Director, VMware
juneyang@vmware.com


Dan Baskette

Senior Consultant Technologist
dan.baskette@emc.com

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Pivotal Sessions at EMC World
Session

Presenter

Dates/Times

The Pivotal Platform: A Purpose-Built Platform for Big-DataDriven Applications

Josh Klahr

Tue 5:30 - 6:30, Palazzo E Wed
11:30 - 12:30, Delfino 4005

Pivotal: Data Scientists on the Front Line: Examples of
Data Science in Action

Noelle Sio

Tue 10:00 - 11:00, Lando 4205
Thu 8:30 - 9:30, Palazzo F

Pivotal: Operationalizing 1000-node Hadoop Cluster –
Analytics Workbench

Clinton Ooi
Bhavin Modi

Tue 11:30 - 12:30, Palazzo L Thu
10:00- 11:00 am, Delfino 4001A

Pivotal: for Powerful Processing of Unstructured Data For
Valuable Insights

SK
Krishnamurthy

Mon 4:00 - 5:00, Lando 4201 A
Tue 4:00 - 5:00, Palazzo M

Pivotal: Big & Fast data – merging real-time data and deep
analytics

Michael
Crutcher

Mon 1:00 - 2:00, Lando 4201 A
Wed 10:00 - 11:00, Palazzo M

Pivotal: Virtualize Big Data to Make The Elephant Dance

June Yang
Dan Baskette

Mon 11:30 - 12:30, Marcello
4401A Wed 4:00 - 5:00, Palazzo
E

Hadoop Design Patterns

Don Miner

Mon 2:30 - 3:30, Palazzo F Wed
8:30 - 9:30, Delfino 4005


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