Table of Contents
2.15.1 Release Notes
Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior
Features
Operating System Support
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RHEL 7.7
- For complete list of supported operating systems see xCAT2 Release Information and Compute node support matrix
-
Beta support for RHEL 8.1 and SLES 15
- Limited support for
confignetwork
- Limited support for
statelite
- Limited support for
Highlighted Changes
- OpenBMC
rspconfig thermalmode
option - Beta support for IC922 nodes discovery
Restrictions and Known Issues
-
go-xcat install
sometimes fails with checksum or signature errors when downloading dependency packages. When that happens, trygo-xcat --xcat-version=2.15 install
or point directly to dependency zip file withgo-xcat --xcat-dep=https://xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-dep/2.x_Linux/xcat-dep-2.15.1-linux.tar.bz2 install
-
When provisioning a node with a diskfull install of RHEL 8.0 or RHEL 8.1 using the default osimage definitions, the disk partitioning rules included in
/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rhels8
will create a 20G/
filesystem if the disk is 65G or greater. This behavior will be changed in the next xCAT release to create a/
filesystem that uses all available space on the disk rather than limiting the filesystem to 20G. For users who wish to provision diskfull nodes with larger/
filesystems using xCAT 2.15.1, thepre.rhels8
can be patched with the updated version using the following procedure:wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xcat2/xcat-core/master/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rhels8
- Make a copy of existing
/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rhels8
- Replace
/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rhels8
with the one downloaded withwget
. - Reprovision compute node.
xCAT Documentation
xCAT documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs: http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/
Download xCAT
-
xcat-core
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.15.1-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.15.1-ubuntu.tar.bz2
-
xcat-dep
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.15.1-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.15.1-ubuntu.tar.bz2
Test Environment
Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:
- Note: Ubuntu has been tested in non-hierarchical environment only.
Hardware Platform | Operation System |
---|---|
IBM Power System AC922 | RHEL 8.1 |
IBM Power System AC922 | RHEL 8.0 |
IBM Power System AC922 | RHEL-Alt 7.6 |
IBM Power System AC922 | SLES 15.0 |
IBM Power System AC922 | Ubuntu 18.04.2 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 8.1 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 8.0 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 7.7 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 7.6 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | Ubuntu 16.04.5 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | Ubuntu 18.04.2 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | SLES 12.3 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 8.1 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 8.0 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 7.6 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | Ubuntu 16.04.5 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | Ubuntu 18.04.2 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | SLES 15.0 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | SLES 12.3 |
Pull Requests and Issues Resolved
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.