Add a ZooKeeper service
If the Add Service wizard does not finish successfully, you can add the ZooKeeper service manually.
In a production environment, you should deploy ZooKeeper as an ensemble with an odd number of servers. As long as a majority of the servers in the ensemble are available, the ZooKeeper service will be available. The minimum recommended ensemble size is three ZooKeeper servers, and Cloudera recommends that each server run on a separate machine. In addition, the ZooKeeper server process should have its own dedicated disk storage if possible.
When adding the ZooKeeper service, the Add Service wizard automatically initializes the data directories.
When you add Zookeeper servers to an existing ensemble, a rolling restart of all zookeeper is required in order to allow all zookeeper servers to have the same configurations.
If you quit the Add Service wizard or it does not finish successfully, you can initialize the directories outside the wizard by following these steps:
