In edureka vm once you start hbase then by default zookeeper daemon will start, to start HBase, follow below commands:
cd /usr/lib/hbase-0.96.2-hadoop2/
./bin/start-hbase.sh
hbase shell
In case hbase did not start or not working properly, follow below steps:
cd /usr/lib/hbase-0.96.2-hadoop2/
sudo rm -r hbasestorage/*
sudo rm -r logs/*
./bin/start-hbase.sh
hbase shell