Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior
Features
Highlighted Functions
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goconserver - A new console service to replace conserver
With this release,
goconserver
is packaged in xcat-dep and is installed as part. of xCAT install/update. The following table shows the corresponding commands between the two services:purpose goconserver conserver start/stop service service goconserver start/stop service conserver start/stop create console files makegocons makeconservercf clean up invalid consoles makegocons -C makeconservercf -C list console connection status makegocons -q goconserver
also allows for the ability to write console logs to TCP/UDP ports, configure this in/etc/goconserver/server.conf
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OpenBMC Python Framework (Beta) - Feedback is appreciated
Please treat this as Beta as we are still working out some of the framework issues
An new Python-based framework is introduced with this release of xCAT which improves the response time significantly for xCAT commands issued against OpenBMC REST API. This framework has dependencies on Python libraries that may not be available from the OS distribution.
See this reference documentation for supported more information.
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New project: xcat2/xcat-inventory(Alpha) - An inventory tool to manipulate xCAT configuration data
This tool enables cluster administrators to:
- manage xCAT cluster configuration under source control
- define and create an xCAT cluster more easily
xCAT Documentation
xCAT documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs: http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/
Download xCAT
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xcat-core
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.13.11-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.13.11-ubuntu.tar.bz2
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xcat-dep
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.13.11-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.13.11-ubuntu.tar.bz2
Test Environment
Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:
Hardware Platform | Operation System |
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IBM Power System AC922 | RHEL 7.4 for Power Little Endian (POWER9) |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 7.4 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | Ubuntu 14.04.4 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | Ubuntu 16.04.1 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | SLES 12 SP2 Issue #2322 |
IBM Power 750 | RHEL 7.4 |
IBM Power 750 | RHEL 6.9 |
IBM Power 750 | SLES 11 SP4 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 7.4 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 6.9 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | SLES 11 SP4 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | Ubuntu 14.04.4 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | Ubuntu 16.04.1 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | SLES 12 SP2 Issue #2322 |
Key Issues Resolved
Issue #4840 verify the kdump on pegas 1.x diskless
Issue #4820 error message improvement when adding users in hierarchical configuration
Issue #4811 not set domain in site table will cause dhcp service failed to start
Issue #4754 confignetwork -s prevents nodes to be deployed
Issue #4743 setroute doesn't work for DHCP interfaces
Issue #4735 enhance Installing a New Kernel in the Diskless Image doc
Issue #4652 bmcdiscover command will not able to find Boston node
Issue #4615 Enhance output of rflash -c for ipmi controlled machines
Issue #4582 Install loops forever, no easy way to trace install progress of diskful nodes
Issue #4629 For sites that would like to forward to their own DNS servers, the site table includes the 'forwarders' attribute to allow for this. If the site internal DNS resolves RFC1918 addresses, xCAT dns doesn't work.
Restrictions and Known Issues
Issue #4929 xcatd failed to start in rhels7.5-snap2 diskless service node due to writing rsyslog failed
Issue #4936 Python framework stops responding, commands reply empty response
Issue #3513 For the latest xCAT-genesis-base, the mlx4_en driver 2.2-1 (Feb 2014) is included, it can not support Mellanox Ethernet NIC that need driver newer than 2.2-1, for more information, please reference build genesis locally with latest RH MN
Issue #3284 While selinux on KVM host was reconfigured from enforcing
to disabled
, rpower failed to power previous created KVM guest on
News
- Apr 22, 2016: xCAT 2.11.1 released.
- Mar 11, 2016: xCAT 2.9.3 (AIX only) released.
- Dec 11, 2015: xCAT 2.11 released.
- Nov 11, 2015: xCAT 2.9.2 (AIX only) released.
- Jul 30, 2015: xCAT 2.10 released.
- Jul 30, 2015: xCAT migrates from sourceforge to github
- Jun 26, 2015: xCAT 2.7.9 released.
- Mar 20, 2015: xCAT 2.9.1 released.
- Dec 12, 2014: xCAT 2.9 released.
- Sep 5, 2014: xCAT 2.8.5 released.
- May 23, 2014: xCAT 2.8.4 released.
- Jan 24, 2014: xCAT 2.7.8 released.
- Nov 15, 2013: xCAT 2.8.3 released.
- Jun 26, 2013: xCAT 2.8.2 released.
- May 17, 2013: xCAT 2.7.7 released.
- May 10, 2013: xCAT 2.8.1 released.
- Feb 28, 2013: xCAT 2.8 released.
- Nov 30, 2012: xCAT 2.7.6 released.
- Oct 29, 2012: xCAT 2.7.5 released.
- Aug 27, 2012: xCAT 2.7.4 released.
- Jun 22, 2012: xCAT 2.7.3 released.
- May 25, 2012: xCAT 2.7.2 released.
- Apr 20, 2012: xCAT 2.7.1 released.
- Mar 19, 2012: xCAT 2.7 released.
- Mar 15, 2012: xCAT 2.6.11 released.
- Jan 23, 2012: xCAT 2.6.10 released.
- Nov 15, 2011: xCAT 2.6.9 released.
- Sep 30, 2011: xCAT 2.6.8 released.
- Aug 26, 2011: xCAT 2.6.6 released.
- May 20, 2011: xCAT 2.6 released.
- Feb 14, 2011: Watson plays on Jeopardy and is managed by xCAT!
- xCAT Release Notes Summary
- xCAT OS And Hw Support Matrix
- xCAT Test Environment Summary
History
- Oct 22, 2010: xCAT 2.5 released.
- Apr 30, 2010: xCAT 2.4 is released.
- Oct 31, 2009: xCAT 2.3 released.
xCAT's 10 year anniversary! - Apr 16, 2009: xCAT 2.2 released.
- Oct 31, 2008: xCAT 2.1 released.
- Sep 12, 2008: Support for xCAT 2
can now be purchased! - June 9, 2008: xCAT breaths life into
(at the time) the fastest
supercomputer on the planet - May 30, 2008: xCAT 2.0 for Linux
officially released! - Oct 31, 2007: IBM open sources
xCAT 2.0 to allow collaboration
among all of the xCAT users. - Oct 31, 1999: xCAT 1.0 is born!
xCAT started out as a project in
IBM developed by Egan Ford. It
was quickly adopted by customers
and IBM manufacturing sites to
rapidly deploy clusters.