Did you take a look at the quick-start guide? https://kafka.apache.org/082/quickstart.html
It shows how to set up a single node, how to validate that its working and then how to set up multi-node cluster. Good luck! On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Yuheng Du <yuheng.du.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Gwen, > > I also need the kafka cluster continue to provide message brokering service > to a Storm cluster after the benchmarking. I am fairly new to cluster > setups. So is there an instruction telling me how to set up the three-node > kafka cluster before running benchmarking? That would be really helpful. > > Thanks gain. > > best, > Yuheng > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Gwen Shapira <gshap...@cloudera.com> wrote: > >> Jay Kreps has a gist with step by step instructions for reproducing >> the benchmarks used by LinkedIn: >> https://gist.github.com/jkreps/c7ddb4041ef62a900e6c >> >> And the blog with the results: >> >> https://engineering.linkedin.com/kafka/benchmarking-apache-kafka-2-million-writes-second-three-cheap-machines >> >> Gwen >> >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Yuheng Du <yuheng.du.h...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > I am trying to set up a kafka cluster consisting of three machines. I >> wanna >> > run a benchmarking program in them. Can anyone recommend a step by step >> > tutorial/instruction of how I can do it? >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > best, >> > Yuheng >>