This document provides an overview of Hadoop HDFS/MapReduce architecture, hardware requirements, installation and configuration process, monitoring options, and key components like the Namenode. It discusses configuring the Namenode, JobTracker, DataNodes, and TaskTrackers. Hardware requirements for the NameNode/JobTracker and DataNode/TaskTracker are specified. Installation can be done via tar file download or using a prebuilt rpm. Configuration involves editing XML configuration files and starting required services. Monitoring can be done via web scraping, Ganglia, or Cacti. The Namenode writes edits to RAM and write-ahead log, with checkpoints to the filesystem. High availability is experimental in YARN and Hadoop