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Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior
Features
Highlighted Functions
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-2.14.5-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.14.5-ubuntu.tar.bz2
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xcat-dep
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.14.5-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.14.5-ubuntu.tar.bz2
Test Environment
Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:
Hardware Platform | Operation System |
---|---|
IBM Power System AC922 | RHEL-Alt 7.6 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 7.6 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | Ubuntu 16.04.5 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | Ubuntu 18.04.1 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | SLES 12 SP3 |
IBM Power 750 | RHEL 7.6 |
IBM Power 750 | RHEL 6.10 |
IBM Power 750 | SLES 11 SP4 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 7.6 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | SLES 12 SP3 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | Ubuntu 16.04.5 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | Ubuntu 18.04.1 |
Key Issues Resolved
Issue #5785 Cumulus Switches get wrong master for static management IP address configuration
Issue #5761 lsdef -l -t group hang with 100% CPU in large size cluster
Issue #5755 synclist: EXECUTE{ALWAYS} ignore noderange
Issue #5740 Installing xCAT-genesis-base
will remove files provided by xCAT-genesis-scripts
Issue #5734 nodeset failed to put vmlinuz into correct location for ubuntu16.04.5 x86
Issue #5721 xCAT-client rpm seems to depend on xCAT-server
Issue #5712 Kdump can not work correctly in rhels7.6 and rhels7.6-alt
Issue #5644 ./otherpkgs: line 931: /usr/bin/logger: Argument list too long
Issue #5564 restart goconserver after yum update to prevent > Unknown lvalue ‘After’ in section ‘Service’
Issue #5497 add rinstall option to skip rebuilding initrd when osdistroupdate/netdrivers is used
Issue #5209 Unable to find pxelinux.0 when attempting to use nodeset
Restrictions and Known Issues
Issue #5905 makedhcp -n cannot generate right URL in dhcpd.conf file: the patch
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 use 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 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.