title: Hadoop Datanode configuration Cores and RAM
body: <p>I am using Hadoop cluster with 9 nodes. I would like to know what is the basic datanode configuration in Hadoop cluster.</p>
  
  <p>I am using following configuration on Namenode and Datanode.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    RAM = 4GB
      Cores = 4
      Disk = 8 ( Total 16GB storage space)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Running sample sort and word count jobs to check the hadoop network perfromance.</p>
  
  <p>Is the configuration I have chosen is right ? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks &amp; Regards,</p>
  
  <p>Abdul Navaz</p>