3. Minimum system requirements

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]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.

Optional: Configure the local repositories

If your cluster does not have access to the Internet, or you are creating a large cluster and you want to conserve bandwidth, you need to provide access to the HDP installation packages using an alternative method. For more information, see Deploying HDP In Production Data Centers.

[Note]Note

If you use the Hortonworks repository tarball image to copy the repository to your local mirror, the name of the gsInstaller file in that local copy will be HDP-gsInstaller-1.1.0.15-2.tar.gz instead of HDP-gsInstaller-1.1.0.15.tar.gz.


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