This section contains information about installing and upgrading MapR software. It also contains information about how to migrate data and applications from an Apache Hadoop cluster to a MapR cluster.
Click Build your own template in the editor. In the
Edit template screen, you can load a file or paste
the contents of a template into the work area.
Paste the contents of the mainTemplate.json file into the
Edit template working area.
Click Save. The template fields are displayed.
In the Basics section, enter your site-specific values for the following
fields:
Subscription
Resource group (new or existing)
Location
In the Settings section, enter the username for the
virtual machine in the Admin Username field. This is the
username for the virtual machine.
In the Admin Auth Type field, enter the authentication
type (password or SSH public key) for the virtual machine.
In the Admin Password field, enter the password for the
virtual machine.
In the Admin Public Key field, enter the public key
authentication for the virtual machine. If you entered an Admin
Password, this field can be left blank.
In the Cluster Name field, enter your cluster
name.
In the Cluster Admin Password field, enter the password
corresponding to the MapR UID. For MapR images, the user defaults to
mapr.
NOTE: For cloud deployments, the installer uses the Cluster Admin
Password as the MySQL root password when it creates a MySQL
database for certain services that require a database.
In the Mep Version field, enter the MapR Ecosystem Pack
(MEP) version.
In the Service Template field, enter the
auto-provisioning template corresponding to the services you need. For more
information, see Auto-Provisioning Templates.
In the Node Count field, enter the number of
nodes.
In the Instance Type field, enter one of the following
instances. MapR Azure templates support the following instance types. For more
information about Azure instance types, see Sizes for Linux Virtual Machines in
Azure.
Standard_D4s_v3
Standard_D8s_v3
Standard_D16s_v3
Standard_DS12_v2
Standard_DS13_v2
Standard_DS14_v2
Standard_DS15_v2
Standard_DS3_v2
Standard_DS4_v2
Standard_DS5_v2
Standard_E4s_v3
Standard_E8s_v3
Standard_E16s_v3
Standard_E32s_v3
Standard_F8s
Standard_F16s
Standard_GS2
Standard_GS3
Standard_GS4
Standard_L4s
Standard_L8s
Standard_L16s
Standard_L32s
In the Disk Type field, enter the disk type to use for
managed disks (Premium_LRS, Standard_LRS).
In the License Type field, enter your license
type.
In the Disk Size field, enter the size in gigabytes (GB)
of each disk.
In the Disk Count field, enter the number of
disks.
In the Public Access CIDR field, enter the public
Internet access CIDR. (Use * for all Internet traffic.) This field allows you to
set or restrict the outside Internet IP addresses that can access the
cluster.
In the Install Open VPN field, enter
true if you want to install OpenVPN to enable access to a
private cluster. For more information about OpenVPN, see Using OpenVPN.
In the Open Vpn User field, enter the login user for
OpenVPN.
In the Open Vpn Password field, enter the password for
the OpenVPN login user. Use a strong password to protect your cluster.
In the Vnet Name field, enter the name of the virtual
network.
In the Vnet Resource Group field, enter the resource
group where the virtual network will be created.
In the Vnet Address Prefix field, enter the address
prefix for the virtual network.
In the Vnet New or Existing field, enter
new or existing to describe the virtual
network.
In the Vnet Private Subnet Name field, enter the subnet
name of the virtual network.
In the Vnet Private Subnet Address Prefix field, enter
the private subnet address prefix of the virtual network.
In the Vnet Public Subnet Name field, enter the subnet
name of the virtual network.
In the Vnet Public Subnet Address Prefix field, enter
the public subnet address prefix of the virtual network.
In the Vnet Public Subnet Start Address field, enter the
public subnet start address of the virtual network.
In the Location field, enter your region
Click the option to agree to the terms and conditions.
Click Purchase.
Navigate to the Azure resource groups page to monitor the creation of the
cluster.
NOTE: Cluster creation for a three-node cluster can take 15-20 minutes.
Depending on the size of the cluster, cluster creation can take hours in
some cases.