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. 
- 64-bit Oracle Linux v5, v6 
- 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP1 
Although there is no single hardware requirement for installing HDP, there are some basic guidelines. You can see sample setups here.


