This is part 1 of a 7 part report by HBase Contributor, Jingcheng Du and HDFS contributor, Wei Zhou (Jingcheng and Wei are both Software Engineers at Intel) Introduction Cluster Setup Tuning Experiment Experiment (continued) Issues Conclusions Introduction As more and more fast storage types (SSD, NVMe SSD, etc.) emerge, a methodology is necessary for better throughput and latency when using big d