Project Serengeti

Serengeti is an open source project, initiated by VMware, to enable the rapid deployment of Hadoop clusters on a virtual platform.

Serengeti deploys HDFS, MapReduce, Pig, Hive and HBase on vSphere. The current version, Serengeti 0.8, was released in April, 2013, and the project is endorsed by all major Hadoop distributions, including Cloudera, Greenplum, Hortonworks and MapR.

To participate in the Serengeti Beta Program, contact the Serengeti team at serengeti@vmware.com