HBASE installation

1) Download tar file "hbase-0.96.2-hadoop2-bin.tar.gz"

2) Unpack this tar on each machine of your HBase installtion.

3) Edit .bashrc

export HBASE_HOME=/opt/ds/app/hbase-0.96.2-hadoop2
export PATH=$PATH:$HBASE_HOME/bin

4) Execute
>source .bashrc

5) Verify hbase version

> hbase version
2015-10-29 13:33:48,002 INFO  [main] util.VersionInfo: HBase 0.96.2-hadoop2

6) Edit "hbase-env.sh"

• Update JAVA_HOME
• export HBASE_MANAGES_ZK=true
• export HBASE_PID_DIR=/var/hbase/pids

7) Update "hbase-site.xml" on Master 

<configuration>

  <property>

    <name>hbase.rootdir</name>

    <value>hdfs://abcdHost:54310/hbase</value>

  </property>

   <property>

    <name>hbase.cluster.distributed</name>

    <value>true</value>

  </property>

  <property>

    <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name>

    <value>hdfs://abcdHost:54310/zookeeper</value>

  </property>

  <property>

    <name>hbase.zookeeper.quorum</name>

    <value>abcdHost</value>

  </property>

  <property>

    <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.clientPort</name>

    <value>2181</value>

  </property>

  <property> 

    <name>hbase.regionserver.port</name> 

    <value>50020</value> 

  </property> 

<property> 

    <name>hbase.master.info.port</name> 

    <value>50010</value> 

  </property> 

<property> 

    <name>hbase.master.port</name> 

    <value>50000</value> 

  </property>

  <!--property> 

    <name>hbase.zookeeper.leaderport</name> 

    <value>4888</value> 

  </property--> 

</configuration>

8) On each slave node update "hbase-site.xml":

<configuration>

  <property>

    <name>hbase.rootdir</name>

    <value>hdfs://abcdHost:54310/hbase</value>

  </property>

  <property>

    <name>hbase.cluster.distributed</name>

    <value>true</value>

  </property>

</configuration>

9) Update "regionserver". You can add all hosts name here separated by new line character.

abcdHost

10) Start and stop Hbase by start-hbase.sh and stop-hbase.sh