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! Content ======= .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 overview/index.rst guides/install-guides/index.rst guides/admin-guides/index.rst advanced/index.rst developers/index.rst help.rst Indices and tables ================== * :ref:`genindex` * :ref:`modindex` * :ref:`search`