About Release 7.2
This site contains documentation for HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric release 7.2, including installation, configuration, administration, and reference content, as well as content for the associated ecosystem components and drivers.
7.2 Installation
This section contains information about installing and upgrading HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric software. It also contains information about how to migrate data and applications from an Apache Hadoop cluster to a HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster.
7.2 Data Fabric
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric is the industry-leading data platform for AI and analytics that solves enterprise business needs.
- HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric File Store
  HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric File Store is a distributed file system for data storage, data management, and data protection. File Store supports mounting and cluster access via NFS and FUSE-based POSIX clients (basic, platinum, or PACC) and also supports access and management via HDFS APIs.
- HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Object Store
  The HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Object Store is a native object storage solution that efficiently stores objects and metadata for optimized access.
- HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database
  HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database is an enterprise-grade, high-performance, NoSQL database management system that you can use for real-time, operational analytics.
- HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Streams
  HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Streams brings integrated publish and subscribe messaging to the Data Fabric Converged Data Platform.
- Kubernetes Interfaces for Data Fabric
  This section describes the Kubernetes Interfaces for Data Fabric, which include the Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver for multiple container-orchestration systems, and the FlexVolume driver for Kubernetes.
- Cluster Management
  Provides a synopsis of the various cluster components and their management.
- Performance
  Describes how to tune system performance, manage RDMA, and optimize CLDB tables.
- Security
  Provides an overview of the Data Fabric security features.
- YARN
- Client Connections
  The following sections describe how a client connects to local and remote data-fabric clusters.
  - How Data Fabric Clients Connect to the Cluster
    Explains how clients connect to a HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster.
  - How Clients Connect to the Replica
    Provides an overview of what Replicas are, and how data-fabric clients connect to them.
  - Locking Support in Data Fabric
    Provides a synopsis of how data-fabric supports locking for clients.
  - Understanding the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Data Access Gateway
    The HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Data Access Gateway is a service that acts as a proxy and gateway for translating requests between lightweight client applications and the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster.
7.2 Administration
This section describes how to manage the nodes and services that make up a cluster.
7.2 Development
This section contains information related to application development for Ezmeral ecosystem components and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric products, including the file system, Database (Key-Value and JSON), and Event Streams.
Other Docs
This section contains release-independent information, including: Installer documentation, Ecosystem release notes, interoperability matrices, security vulnerabilities, and links to other data-fabric version documentation.
Glossary
Definitions for commonly used terms in MapR Converged Data Platform environments.

Client Connections

The following sections describe how a client connects to local and remote data-fabric clusters.