What is Disk Balancer in Hadoop?



What is Disk Balancer in Hadoop?..

Answer / Himanshu Mahajan

Disk Balancer is a tool used in Hadoop to balance the load among DataNodes by moving data blocks from heavily loaded nodes to underutilized ones. This process helps improve the overall performance of the cluster by ensuring that the data is evenly distributed across all available storage resources.

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