xCAT 2 Cookbooks

• xCAT 2 Intro to the Cookbooks - installing and setting up xCAT. Contains pointers to all xCAT info.
• xCAT iDataplex Cookbook - setting up a system x rack mounted cluster
• xCAT BladeCenter Cookbook - setting up a BladeCenter cluster
• xCAT Statelite Cookbook - setting up a Linux cluster with NFS root diskless nodes
• xCAT system p Linux Cookbook - setting up a system p cluster with Linux
• xCAT AIX Cookbook - creating an xCAT management node on AIX
• xCAT AIX RTE Nodes - installing an AIX standalone system using the NIM "rte" method
• xCAT AIX mksysb Nodes - installing an AIX standalone system using an AIX mksysb image (cloning)
• xCAT AIX Diskless Nodes - booting AIX diskless nodes
• xCAT AIX JS Blade Nodes
• Updating AIX Software on xCAT Nodes

xCAT 2 Special Topics

• Monitoring an xCAT Cluster
• Synchronizing Configuration Files to Nodes
• Updating xCAT Nodes
• Managing the Infiniband Network
• Setup MySQL as the xCAT Database
• Setup PostgreSQL as the xCAT Database
• Setup DB2 as the xCAT Database
• Setting Up a Linux Hierarchical Cluster
• Setting Up an AIX Hierarchical Cluster
• Discovering and Configuring System p Hardware
• Installing and Running the xCAT Web Interface
• Setting UP LDAP in an xCAT Cluster
• xCAT 2 Advanced Topics - covers QS22 blades, compressed stateless, and NFS-hybrid stateless. A little out of date.
• xCAT 2 Developers Guide
• Uninstalling xCAT
• CSM To xCAT2 Migration

xCAT 2 on the Internet

• xCAT 2 web site
• Download xCAT 2
• The xCAT Project on SourceForge
• xCAT command man pages
• xCAT table descriptions
• xCAT 2 Wiki
• xCAT 2 Source in Subversion
• xCAT 2 Bugs in Tracker
• xCAT Mailing List
• xCAT 2 Open Source License: Eclipse Public License