In this article I am going to explain the procedure for installation of Hadoop on windows machine.

Hadoop requires following software:

1. Linux like Operating System.

2. Java Virtual Machine.

3. Latest version of the Hadoop Common Software from apache.

For running Hadoop on windows , we will to user either a Virtual Machine like VMPlayer or Cygwin. We are going to use VMPlayer.

Here are the step involved:

1. Download VMPlayer.

2. Download VMPlayer image.

3. Download Java Virtual Machine.

4. Download Putty (For SSH connection).

5. Download for WinSCP (For shell access).

6. Download Eclipse for development of Hadoop programs.