Migrating 50TB data from local Hadoop cluster to Google Cloud Storage

Question 1: The recommended way of moving data from a local Hadoop cluster to GCS is to use the Google Cloud Storage connector for Hadoop. The instructions on that site are mostly for running Hadoop on Google Compute Engine VMs, but you can also download the GCS connector directly, either gcs-connector-1.2.8-hadoop1.jar if you’re using Hadoop … Read more