diff --git a/sahara/plugins/vanilla/hadoop2/recommendations_utils.py b/sahara/plugins/vanilla/hadoop2/recommendations_utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6ba4e53e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sahara/plugins/vanilla/hadoop2/recommendations_utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2015 Mirantis Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+# implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from sahara.plugins import recommendations_utils as ru
+
+
+def recommend_configs(cluster, plugin_configs):
+    yarn_configs = [
+        'yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb',
+        'yarn.scheduler.minimum-allocation-mb',
+        'yarn.scheduler.maximum-allocation-mb',
+        'yarn.nodemanager.vmem-check-enabled',
+    ]
+    mapred_configs = [
+        'yarn.app.mapreduce.am.resource.mb',
+        'yarn.app.mapreduce.am.command-opts',
+        'mapreduce.map.memory.mb',
+        'mapreduce.reduce.memory.mb',
+        'mapreduce.map.java.opts',
+        'mapreduce.reduce.java.opts',
+        'mapreduce.task.io.sort.mb',
+    ]
+    configs_to_configure = {
+        'cluster_configs': {
+            'dfs.replication': ('HDFS', 'dfs.replication')
+        },
+        'node_configs': {
+        }
+    }
+    for mapr in mapred_configs:
+        configs_to_configure['node_configs'][mapr] = ("MapReduce", mapr)
+    for yarn in yarn_configs:
+        configs_to_configure['node_configs'][yarn] = ('YARN', yarn)
+    provider = ru.HadoopAutoConfigsProvider(
+        configs_to_configure, plugin_configs, cluster)
+    provider.apply_recommended_configs()
diff --git a/sahara/plugins/vanilla/v2_6_0/versionhandler.py b/sahara/plugins/vanilla/v2_6_0/versionhandler.py
index ca96820d..dc6b8c60 100644
--- a/sahara/plugins/vanilla/v2_6_0/versionhandler.py
+++ b/sahara/plugins/vanilla/v2_6_0/versionhandler.py
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ from oslo_log import log as logging
 
 from sahara import conductor
 from sahara import context
-from sahara.plugins import recommendations_utils as ru
 from sahara.plugins import utils
 from sahara.plugins.vanilla import abstractversionhandler as avm
 from sahara.plugins.vanilla.hadoop2 import config as c
+from sahara.plugins.vanilla.hadoop2 import recommendations_utils as ru
 from sahara.plugins.vanilla.hadoop2 import run_scripts as run
 from sahara.plugins.vanilla.hadoop2 import scaling as sc
 from sahara.plugins.vanilla.hadoop2 import validation as vl
@@ -192,32 +192,4 @@ class VersionHandler(avm.AbstractVersionHandler):
         return c.get_open_ports(node_group)
 
     def recommend_configs(self, cluster):
-        yarn_configs = [
-            'yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb',
-            'yarn.scheduler.minimum-allocation-mb',
-            'yarn.scheduler.maximum-allocation-mb',
-            'yarn.nodemanager.vmem-check-enabled',
-        ]
-        mapred_configs = [
-            'yarn.app.mapreduce.am.resource.mb',
-            'yarn.app.mapreduce.am.command-opts',
-            'mapreduce.map.memory.mb',
-            'mapreduce.reduce.memory.mb',
-            'mapreduce.map.java.opts',
-            'mapreduce.reduce.java.opts',
-            'mapreduce.task.io.sort.mb',
-        ]
-        configs_to_configure = {
-            'cluster_configs': {
-                'dfs.replication': ('HDFS', 'dfs.replication')
-            },
-            'node_configs': {
-            }
-        }
-        for mapr in mapred_configs:
-            configs_to_configure['node_configs'][mapr] = ("MapReduce", mapr)
-        for yarn in yarn_configs:
-            configs_to_configure['node_configs'][yarn] = ('YARN', yarn)
-        provider = ru.HadoopAutoConfigsProvider(
-            configs_to_configure, self.get_plugin_configs(), cluster)
-        provider.apply_recommended_configs()
+        ru.recommend_configs(cluster, self.get_plugin_configs())
diff --git a/sahara/tests/unit/plugins/vanilla/v2_6_0/test_versionhandler.py b/sahara/tests/unit/plugins/vanilla/hadoop2/test_recommendation_utils.py
similarity index 85%
rename from sahara/tests/unit/plugins/vanilla/v2_6_0/test_versionhandler.py
rename to sahara/tests/unit/plugins/vanilla/hadoop2/test_recommendation_utils.py
index 673f4ad1..fff665f3 100644
--- a/sahara/tests/unit/plugins/vanilla/v2_6_0/test_versionhandler.py
+++ b/sahara/tests/unit/plugins/vanilla/hadoop2/test_recommendation_utils.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 import mock
 import testtools
 
-from sahara.plugins.vanilla.v2_6_0 import versionhandler
+from sahara.plugins.vanilla.hadoop2 import recommendations_utils as ru
 
 CONFIGURATION_SCHEMA = {
     'cluster_configs': {
@@ -52,12 +52,9 @@ CONFIGURATION_SCHEMA = {
 class TestVersionHandler(testtools.TestCase):
     @mock.patch('sahara.plugins.recommendations_utils.'
                 'HadoopAutoConfigsProvider')
-    @mock.patch('sahara.plugins.vanilla.v2_6_0.versionhandler.VersionHandler.'
-                'get_plugin_configs')
-    def test_recommend_configs(self, fake_plugin_configs, provider):
+    def test_recommend_configs(self, provider):
         f_cluster, f_configs = mock.Mock(), mock.Mock()
-        fake_plugin_configs.return_value = f_configs
-        versionhandler.VersionHandler().recommend_configs(f_cluster)
+        ru.recommend_configs(f_cluster, f_configs)
         self.assertEqual([
             mock.call(CONFIGURATION_SCHEMA, f_configs, f_cluster)
         ], provider.call_args_list)