Serengeti is an open source project initiated by VMware to enable the rapid deployment of an Apache Hadoop cluster (HDFS, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, ..) on a virtual platform.
The current version, Serengeti 0.7, was released in October, 2012, and supports vSphere. The project is endorsed by all major Hadoop distributions including Cloudera, Greenplum, Hortonworks and MapR.
To participate in the Serengeti Beta Program, contact the Serengeti team at serengeti@vmware.com
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