Environment Requirements

This document provides guidance based on the Kunpeng server and CentOS or openEuler OS. Before performing operations, ensure that your software and hardware meet the requirements.

Hardware Requirements

Table 1 lists the hardware requirements.

**Table 1** Hardware requirements
Item	Description
Server	Kunpeng server
Processor	Kunpeng 920
Drive	A performance test requires at least one system drive and one data drive. Use an SSD or NVMe drive as the data drive for higher performance. If no performance test is needed, you can create a data directory directly on the system drive. Configure the number of drives based on actual requirements.

OS Requirements

Run the cat /etc/*-release command to query the OS information.
Run the lscpu command to query the processor information.

Run the uname -r command to query the kernel version.

Run the uname -a command to query the environment information.
If you need to install an OS, choose Minimal Install and select Development Tools to minimize manual operations.

Table 2 lists the OS requirements.

**Table 2** OS requirements
Item	Version	How to Obtain
CentOS	7.6 for Arm	Link
CentOS	8.1 for Arm	Link
openEuler	20.03 LTS for Arm	Link
openEuler	22.03 LTS for Arm	Link

The OS versions listed in the table have been verified. For other OS versions, you can also refer to this document to install MySQL.

Parent topic: Installation Guide