Supported Operating Systems for Cloudera Manager

Cloudera Manager supports a range of operating systems including:

  • Red Hat-compatible systems
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 and CentOS 5.7, 64-bit
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 and CentOS 6.2, 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 required. Also, 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.
  • Debian systems
    • Debian 6.0 (Squeeze), 64-bit
  • Ubuntu systems
    • Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), 64-bit
    • Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin), 64-bit
  Note:

For Hadoop to work properly, using the same version of the same operating system on all cluster hosts is strongly recommended.