This document discusses Adobe's implementation of virtualizing Hadoop on VMware technologies for operational simplicity and flexibility. Key points include:
- Adobe built an internal Platform-as-a-Service offering using VMware's vSphere, vCloud Automation Center, and Big Data Extensions to virtualize Hadoop for experimentation and production use cases.
- Benefits included an on-demand Hadoop service, consolidation of resources, and integration with Adobe's private cloud and storage.
- The reference architecture showed Hadoop nodes running as VMs on vSphere with storage integration and service catalog integration using vCAC blueprints.