Features
xCAT Docker image for 2.14.6
A new Docker image has been published for xCAT 2.14.6.
# docker pull xcat/xcat2:latest
Please refer to Quick Start for the details.
Beta support for RHEL 8 GA
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xcat2/xcat-core/master/xCAT-server/share/xcat/tools/go-xcat -O - >/tmp/go-xcat
chmod +x /tmp/go-xcat
/tmp/go-xcat \
--xcat-core=https://xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-core/2.14.x_Linux/xcat-core/xcat-core-2.14.6-linux.tar.bz2 \
--xcat-dep=https://xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-dep/2.x_Linux/beta/xcat-dep-rhel8.tar.bz2 \
install
Notes:
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RHEL 8.0.0 GA is supported.
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If deploy RHEL 8 compute nodes is intended after migrate from a previous xCAT installation, manually run
chdef -t site xcatsslversion=
after xCAT migration. Otherwise, problems will be hit when deploy RHEL 8 compute node. #5794 #5798 #6061 #6090 And this kind of migration is supported on RHEL 7 ONLY. #577 -
There is no plan to support xCAT Software Kits function on RHEL 8.
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Limit support for
confignetwork
, the follow function are not included:- extra params support
- configure hostname other than default nodename
- configib support
- enhance multiple IP support for installation NIC
- Linux bridge configuration enhancement #6299 #6302
- To use xcat-openbmc-py3 on RH8, please reference the steps deploy xcat-openbmc-py3 on RH8 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-2.14.6-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.14.6-ubuntu.tar.bz2
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xcat-dep
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.14.6-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.14.6-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 #6146 Linux kdump not working on RHEL 8 diskless compute node
Issue #6145 makegocons throw out confused message "Failed to execute command: systemctl disable conserver." even there is no conserver.service alive ahead in rhels8.0
Issue #6118 otherpkgdir won't work with localdir and http repo
Issue #6108 Any method to sync normal user accounts from manage node to compute nodes?
Issue #6089 rh8 node provision failed when site.xcatsslversion is TLSv1 and upgrade xCAT to latest rhels8 build
Issue #6069 genimage for redhat8 diskless complains "Detection of Platform Module failed: Cannot open file <..>/os-release"
Issue #6068 [RH8]copycds do not report error when disk is full in MN
Issue #6049 copycds <cumulus linux iso>
modifies the permissions of source bin file
Issue #6035 DB performance: lsdef will query all tables even specify attribute to query
Issue #6028 configeth does not reload new ifcfg-* for installnic when diskless reboot
Issue #6022 [RH8] RHEL 8 does not support LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2004 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 adapter any more
Issue #6015 xcat on Centos 7.6.1810 - all compute nodes hang overnight
Issue #6014 xcat on Centos 7.6.1810 - how to set the latest kernel to run on compute nodes
Issue #5987 xdcp EXECUTE of .post script not working as expected
Issue #5966 nodeset calculate wrong path for deploying sles when using "copycds -p"
Issue #5958 makedns does not support "forward only" option
Issue #5938 After provisioning or after some idle time... updatenode takes very long time on first attempt on AC922
Issue #5905 makedhcp -n cannot generate right URL in dhcpd.conf file
Issue #5888 synclist: EXECUTEALWAYS error when another line in the synclist references the same destination node
Issue #5887 "genimage ubuntu18.04.1-x86_64-netboot-compute" generates broken image
Issue #5873 Section %packages does not end with %end error in diskful service node install
Issue #5869 Function "httpport" can not work on ubuntu + netboot=grub2 scenario
Issue #5862 httpport
attribute can not work well in ubuntu diskless
Issue #5856 The output of some hardware control command are not same between perl and python
Issue #5241 [FVT]:lsdef -t osimage -z could not gives out all osimage's definition stanza
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 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.