1) Follow steps as below We are going to set up 3 node cluster for Hadoop to start with follow below steps as written in http://querydb.blogspot.in/2015/12/installing-single-node-hadoop-220-on.html 1) Prerequisite 2) Add Hadoop Group and User 3) Setup SSH Certificate 4) Disabling IPv6 5) Install/ Setup Hadoop 6) Setup environment variable for hadoop 7) Login using hduser and verify hadoop version ** Please make sure to complete the steps only till step 7) 2) Networking Update /etc/hosts on each of 3 boxes and add below lines: 172.26.34.91 slave2 192.168.64.96 slave1 172.26.34.126 master 3) SSH access Setup ssh in every node such that they can communicate with one another without any prompt for password. Since you have followed step 1) on every node. ssh keys has been setup. What we need to do is right now is to access slave1 and slave 2 from master. So, we just have to add the hduser@master’s public SSH key (which should be in $HOME/.s...