xCAT stands for E\ **x**\ treme **C**\ loud/\ **C**\ luster **A**\ dministration **T**\ oolkit.

xCAT offers complete management of clouds, clusters (HPC), grids, datacenters,
renderfarms, online gaming infrastructure, and whatever tomorrows next buzzword may be.

**xCAT enables the administrator to:**
   #. Discover the hardware servers
   #. Execute remote system management against the discovered server
   #. Provision Operating Systems on physical (Bare-metal) or virtual machines
   #. Provision machines in Diskful and Diskless
   #. Install and configure user applications
   #. Parallel system management
   #. Integrate xCAT in Cloud

**xCAT** is an open source project hosted on `GitHub/xcat2 <https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/>`_. You can get the **source code**
, submit **bug/question/requirement** and contribute **code, doc** here.

**xCAT**'s landing page is http://xcat.org. You can get the **download packages** and **release notes** here.

Enjoy!

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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   overview/index.rst
   guides/install-guides/index.rst
   guides/admin-guides/index.rst
   advanced/index.rst
   developers/index.rst
   help.rst


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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`

