System Requirements

Hardware

CPU - Dual Intel Quad/Hex Cores

Memory - 128 GB or more recommended, ideally 256 GB or more

Storage - DataNodes with 8 or more 2TD disks each

Network IF Bonded Gigabit Ethernet or 10Gigabit Ethernet

Operating Systems

Red Hat-compatible systems

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 and CentOS 5.7, 64-bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 and 6.4, and CentOS 6.2 and 6.4, 64-bit
• Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, 64-bit SLES systems
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, 64-bit. Service Pack 1 or later is requireAlso, the SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1 is required on cluster hosts running the Cloudera Manager Agents (not required on the Cloudera Manager Server host); you can download the SDK here.d. Debian systems
• Debian 6.0 (Squeeze), 64-bit Ubuntu systems
• Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), 64-bit
• Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin), 64-bit

Hadoop Versions

• Flume 1.5.2
• Ganglia 3.5.0
• HDFS 2.6.0
• Nagios 3.5.0
• Presto 0.80
• Tez 0.5.2
• YARN + MapReduce2 2.6.0
• ZooKeeper 3.4.6
• Accumulo 1.6.1
• CDH 5.1.1+
• Hortonworks HDP 2.2

Other

• Java 1.7+
• Boost C++ Libraries
• Python / Anaconda
• Julia 0.3.6