# Configure the operating system
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This section includes instructions for configuring your operating system for SAP HANA.

**Topics**
+ [SLES 12/15](configure-operating-system-sles-for-sap-12.x.md)
+ [RHEL 7/8/9](configure-operating-system-rhel-for-sap-7.x.md)

**Note**  
For scale-out workloads, you must repeat these steps for every node in the cluster.