distcp hdfs://hdp-2.0-secure hdfs://hdp-2.0-secure One issue here is that the SASL RPC client requires that the remote server’s Kerberos principal must match the server principal in its own configuration. Therefore, the same principal name must be assigned to the applicable NameNodes in the source and the destination cluster. For example, if the Kerberos principal name of the NameNode in the source cluster is nn/host1@realm, the Kerberos principal name of the NameNode in destination cluster must be nn/host2@realm, rather than nn2/host2@realm, for example.