Hbase: How to specify hostname for Hbase master

Question

I\'m struggling to setup a Hbase distributed cluster with 2 nodes, one is my machine and one is the VM, using the \"host-only\" Adapter in VirtualBox.

My problem is that

Answer 1

The answer that @Infinity provided seems to belong to version ~0.9.4.

For version 1.1.4.

according to the source code from

org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster

the configuration should be:

  
    hbase.master.hostname
    master.local
    
  

After setting this value, region servers are able to connect to hbase master; however, in my environment, the region server complained about:

com.google.protobuf.ServiceException: java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument

The problem disappeared after I installed oracle JDK 8 instead of open-jdk-7 in all of my nodes.

So in conclusion, here is my solution:

• use dns name server instead of setting /etc/hosts, as hbase is very picky on hostname and seems requires DNS lookup as well as reverse DNS lookup.

• upgrade jdk to oracle 8

• use the setting item mentioned above.