Hardware Recommendations:
Although there is no single hardware requirement for installing HDP, there are some basic guidelines. You can see sample setups here.
Operating Systems Requirements:
The following operating systems are supported:
64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v5.*, v6.*
64-bit CentOS v5.*, v6.*
![[Important]](../common/images/admon/important.png)
Important All hosts in the cluster must run the same OS, version and patch sets.
Graphics Requirements:
The HMC deployment wizard runs as a browser-based Web app. You must have a machine capable of running a graphical browser to use this tool.
Software Requirements:
On each of your hosts:
yum
rpm
scp
curl
wget
pdsh
On the machine from which you will run HMC:
Firefox v.12+
Database Requirements:
Hive or HCatalog requires a MySQL database for its use. You can choose to use a current instance or let the HMC deployment wizard create one for you.
