1. Install RSync
#> yum -y install rsync
2. Download Hadoop
http://hadoop.apache.org/releases.html#> cd /usr/local #> wget http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hadoop/common/hadoop-2.8.1/hadoop-2.8.1.tar.gz
3. Unzip Hadoop file
#> tar zxf hadoop-2.8.1.tar.gz
4. Setup environment variables
#> cd /usr/local/hadoop-2.8.1/etc/hadoop #> vi hadoop-env.sh
#> vi ~/.bash_profile
5. Configure core-site.xml file
#> cd /usr/local/hadoop-2.8.1/etc/hadoop #> vi core-site.xml
6. Configure hdfs-site.xml
#> cd /usr/local/hadoop-2.8.1/etc/hadoop #> vi hdfs-site.xml
7. Create SSH key
#> ssh-keygen -t rsa #> cp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
8. Test SSH
#> ssh localhost
9. Format NameNode
#> hadoop namenode -format