Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior
Features
Operating System Support
Highlighted Functions
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Refine ONIE switch support documentation
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Add PDU support and provide following commands
- rpower compute_node pduoff/pduon/pdustat
- rpower pdu_node off/on/stat
- rinv pdu_node
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xcatprobe
enhancements-
Add option
-p
to support some performance calculationxcatprobe osdeploy -n node_range [-r roll_back_duration] [-p compact/phase/origin]
- compact: elapsed time of provision for each node
- phase: elapsed time for dhcp, install, postscripts and postbootscripts stages, and time for whole provision
- origin: show origin start time of each stage.
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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-2.13.2-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.13.2-ubuntu.tar.bz2
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xcat-dep
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.13.2-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.13.2-ubuntu.tar.bz2
Test Environment
Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:
Hardware Platform | Operation System |
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IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 7.3 |
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(bug#2322) |
IBM Power 750 | RHEL 7.3 |
IBM Power 750 | RHEL 6.8 |
IBM Power 750 | SLES 11 SP4 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 7.3 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 6.8 |
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(bug#2322) |
Key Issues Resolved
- Issue #2422 Missing Commands in Genesis Image
- Issue #62 Add support for switched (managed) PDU
- Issue #2459 "xcatd: install monitor" process(listening on ipv6 socket) will die on status update from node failed on reverse dns lookup
- Issue #2473 "updatenode -P" will complain "msgutil_r: command not found" if no "/xcatpost" on
- Issue #2487 2.13.2 xcat install monitor process hang and could not report the node status
- Issue #2521
makedhcp
fails for nodes on remote networks - Issue #2436 tftp continued after xcatd shutdown
Restrictions and Known Issues
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Issue 2856 nodes provisioned with redhat osimages created by xCAT 2.12.3 or earlier missed yum repo to MN in xCAT 2.12.4 or later.
The work around is to rerun copycds against the redhat isos. Had been included in 2.13.3 release.
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Issue #2412 - Partially Resolved. Regular expression in nicips.* can be resolved correctly.
makehosts
andconfigurenics
still require some enhancements to fully support this. Runningmakehosts
will generate garbage entries in/etc/hosts
.
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.