To install and manage a Hadoop cluster using Ambari, your system must meet minimum requirements.
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)
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. For example, if you are using RHEL 6 your hosts must be able to access the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 Optional (RPMs)" repo. If this repo is disabled, the installation is unable to access the rubygems package, which is necessary for Ambari to operate. 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
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)
Firefox latest stable release
Google Chrome latest stable release
