Is there a way to add nodes to a running Hadoop cluster?

Question

I have been playing with Cloudera and I define the number of clusters before I start my job then use the cloudera manager to make sure everything is running.

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Answer 1

Following steps should help you launch the new node into the running cluster.

1> Update the /etc/hadoop/conf/slaves list with the new node-name
2> Sync the full configuration /etc/hadoop/conf to the new datanode from the Namenode. If the file system isn't shared.  
2>  Restart all the hadoop services on Namenode/Tasktracker and all the services on the new Datanode. 
3>  Verify the new datanode from the browser http://namenode:50070
4>  Run the balancer script to readjust the data between the nodes. 

If you don't want to restart the services on the NN, when you add a new node. I would say add the names ahead to the slaves configuration file. So they report as decommission/dead nodes until they are available. Following the above DataNode only steps. Again this not the best practice.