To run Hadoop, your system must meet minimum requirements.
There is no single hardware requirement set for installing Hadoop.
For more information on the parameters that may affect your installation, see Hardware Recommendations For Apache Hadoop.
The following operating systems are supported:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v5.x or 6.x (64-bit)
CentOS v5.x or 6.x (64-bit)
Oracle Linux v5.x or 6.x (64-bit)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11, SP1 (64-bit)
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The installer pulls many packages from the base OS repos. If you do not have a complete set of base OS repos available to all your machines at the time of installation you may run into issues. If you encounter problems with base OS repos being unavailable, please contact your system administrator to arrange for these additional repos to be proxied or mirrored. For more information see Optional: Configure the Local Repositories |
The Ambari Install Wizard runs as a browser-based Web app. You must have a machine capable of running a graphical browser to use this tool. The supported browsers are:
Windows (Vista, 7)
Internet Explorer 9.0 and higher (for Vista + Windows 7)
Firefox latest stable release
Safari latest stable release
Google Chrome latest stable release
Mac OS X (10.6 or later)
Firefox latest stable release
Safari latest stable release
Google Chrome latest stable release
Linux (RHEL, CentOS, SLES, Oracle Linux)
Firefox latest stable release
Google Chrome latest stable release
On each of your hosts:
yum and rpm (RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux)
zypper (SLES)
scp, curl, and wget
python (2.6 or later)
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The Python version shipped with SUSE 11, 2.6.0-8.12.2, has a critical bug that may cause the Ambari Agent to fail within the first 24 hours. If you are installing on SUSE 11, please update all your hosts to Python version 2.6.8-0.15.1. |
The following Java runtimes are supported:
Oracle JDK 1.7_45 64-bit (default)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_31 64-bit
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Note Deprecated as of Ambari 1.5.1
OpenJDK 7 64-bit (not supported on SLES)
Hive/HCatalog, Oozie, and Ambari all require their own internal databases.
Hive/HCatalog: By default uses an Ambari-installed MySQL 5.x instance. With appropriate preparation, you can also use an existing MySQL 5.x or Oracle 11g r2 instance. See Using Non-Default Databases for more information on using existing instances.
Oozie: By default uses an Ambari-installed Derby instance. With appropriate preparation, you can also use an existing MySQL 5.x or Oracle 11g r2 instance. See Using Non-Default Databases for more information on using existing instances.
Ambari: By default uses an Ambari-installed PostgreSQL 8.x instance. With appropriate preparation, you can also use an existing Oracle 11g r2, or MySQL 5.x instance. See Using Non-Default Databases for more information on using existing instances.
For information on setting up file system partitions on master and slave nodes in a HDP cluster, see File System Partitioning Recommendations.
