Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior
Features
Highlighted Functions
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OpenBMC support
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rspconfig
- Get IP/Netmask/Gateway/VLAN/Hostname attributes
sshcfg
- ability to copy SSH keys to the BMC
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rflash
- flash/activate/manage OpenBMC firmware (BMC/PNOR) -
reventlog
- limited log reporting -
Known Issue:
rpower <> reset/boot
has been disabled for this release. Issue #3966
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xCAT Performance Enhancements were made on the following functions:
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For hardware discovery
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Support for IBM OpenPOWER S822LC for Big Data Servers
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SRIOV support for VMs, please reference Manage VM documentation for more information.
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-2.13.7-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.13.7-ubuntu.tar.bz2
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xcat-dep
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.13.7-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.13.7-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 7.4 |
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 #3939 makehosts does not understand tagged VLAN interfaces
Issue #3930 SN will dispatch "nodeset offline" command back to MN
Issue #3927 If network entry exist, makenetworks hard stop
Issue #3876 have /tmp and /var on hardisk in the xCAT diskless installation
Issue #3867 switch_macmap fails with "No switch information obtained" on Cisco switch
Issue #3809 Unrecognized directive (dest=osimage) after hardware discovery
Issue #3614 cumulus switch enablesnmp does not program the community password to match the site or switch table
Issue #3571 makenetworks does not detect existing network defined in the network tables
Issue #3428 kickstart file is not correct in hierarchy mode
Restrictions and Known Issues
Issue #3966 xCAT needs to enhance rpower <> reset
to work with OpenBMC servers as a hard reset is not supported and sending off and on too quickly does not always take.
Issue #274 rhels7.4/rhels7.2 diskless hang on Power S822LC
Issue #3700 xcatprobe switch_macmap , does not display VLAN correctly for CumulusLinux
Issue #3870 Running discover on the latest P9 Processor causes segmentation fault in dodiscovery
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.