Earning Points. Starwood's Preferred Guest program is fairly straightforward: the more nights you spend at participating hotels, the faster you'll earn a free night.
The mapper output (intermediate data) is stored on the Local file system (NOT HDFS) of each individual mapper nodes. This is typically a temporary directory location which can be setup in config by the hadoop administrator. The intermediate data is cleaned up after the Hadoop Job completes.
.vmsn <vmname>-Snapshot.vmsn This is the snapshot state file, which stores the running state of a virtual machine at the time you take that snapshot <vmname>-Snapshot<###>.vmsn This is the file which stores the state of a snapshot .vmss <vmname>.vmss This is the suspended state file, which stores the state of a suspended virtual machine