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.
Although there is no single hardware requirement for installing HDP, there are some basic guidelines. You can see sample setups here.
