Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior
Features
Operating System Support
- ubuntu 18.04 Basic diskful/diskless deployment with restrictions (Will be enhanced in 2.14.3)
- RHEL 6.10
Highlighted Functions
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secure root supporting
For diskful/diskless deployment, the root password hash is included in files that can be downloaded from http server.
secureroot
attribute insite
table provides a more secure method. -
xcat-inventory v0.1.4:
xcat-inventory
is a new command that xCAT team is working on to help System Administrators manage xCAT configuration data with source control by importing/exporting configuration to flat files.Enhancements added:
-
shared-data based xCAT MN HA
-
gocons v0.3.0:
Enhancements added:
- enable etcd storage
- Break sequence
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-2.14.2-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.14.2-ubuntu.tar.bz2
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xcat-dep
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.14.2-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.14.2-ubuntu.tar.bz2
Test Environment
Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:
Hardware Platform | Operation System |
---|---|
IBM Power System AC922 | RHEL-Alt 7.5 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 7.5 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | Ubuntu 18.04 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | Ubuntu 16.04.1 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | Ubuntu 14.04.4 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | SLES 12 SP2 Issue #2322 |
IBM Power 750 | RHEL 6.10 |
IBM Power 750 | SLES 11 SP4 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 6.10 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | SLES 11 SP4 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | Ubuntu 16.04.1 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | Ubuntu 14.04.4 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | SLES 12 SP2 Issue #2322 |
Key Issues Resolved
Issue #5365 s_client: Option unknown option -no_ssl2
Issue #5336 Unable to flash firmware on IBM OpenPower S822LC for Big Data, model 8001-12C
Issue #5306 Update xCAT Security Key to use RSA and stronger SHA-2 family hash: SHA512, SHA384, SHA256, and SHA224
Issue #5294 Statelite provision hung at netbooting
for rhels 6.10 in PPC64
Issue #5287 xcat 2.14 is unable to recognize centos versions
Issue #5284 kits addpkgs selects packages without respecting versions
Issue #5278 mysqlsetup -i hang when MN is using alias IP
Issue #5266 Couldn't create bin/switchprobe from non-root user
Issue #5263 Recording the Severity of log message into xCAT logs
Issue #5260 chtab try to access /etc/xcat/*.sqlite by its own, but this does not work for non-root users
Restrictions and Known Issues
Issue #5121 rspconfig failed to set bmc ip etc in some specific condition
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 #5057 This issue cannot be reproduced, and the work around is : check the bmc state using rflash <node> -l
, if the target firmware state is Active(+)
, execute rpower <node> boot
to reboot the host and let new firmware take effect.
Issue #3284 While selinux on KVM host was reconfigured from enforcing
to disabled
, rpower failed to power previously created KVM guest
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.