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:
#. provision operating systems on physical (“bare metal”) or virtual machines.
#. provision machines using scripted install, stateless, statelite, iSCSI, or cloning.
#. remotely manage systems (lights out management, remote console support, distributed shell support).
#. quickly configure and control management nodes services: dns, http, dhcp, tftp, nfs, etc.
**xCAT** is an open source project hosted on `SourceForge `_ and currently mirrored on `GitHub `_. (We hope to be natively hosted on GitHub in the near future)
Enjoy!
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.. toctree::
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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`
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