Essential role of the VMware Big Data Extension is the node
provisioning automation function, which uses a virtual machine belonging to
BDE’s vApp as template for new Hadoop cluster nodes.
It’s not unusual that companies need to change
their template’s configuration to adhere to internal security requirements,
installing agents like for monitoring and antivirus or tweaking some security parameter, which will all be
inherited by the new nodes.
The template provided by VMware as part BDE 2.2
is a CentOS 6.5 64-bits, so if you want to change anything on it first you
would need login on (obviously).
The thing is you can look for it's username and
password through all the documentation and you wont find it.
Since it took me some time to find it, I thought
it would be a good idea to share with you guys.
Without further ado here’s the BDE’s Hadoop template
default password:
User:
serengeti
Password:
password
You can leverage sudo if you need to run any command with a higher
privileges.
If you got this far and still have doubts about what BDE is really about, check my BDE The basics post.
