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12 XCAT_2.16.1_Release_Notes
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2.16.1 Release Notes (November 6 2020)

Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior

Features

Operating System Support

Highlighted Changes

  • For provisioning x86 nodes, pull request https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/6772 added code to skip the elilo bootloader, if possible. If you experience problems provisioning x86 nodes without elilo, please open an issue. As a workaround, you can force the use of elilo by adding an explicit return 0 from /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/xnba.pm:has_efistub(). When using this workaround on an Ubuntu xCAT management server, an updated elilo-xcat package is also required. To install the updated package, download it with: wget https://xcat.org/files/xcat/repos/apt/devel/xcat-dep/pool/main/e/elilo-xcat/elilo-xcat_3.14-5_all.deb and then apt-get install ./elilo-xcat_3.14-5_all.deb prior to provisioning x86 compute nodes.

xCAT Documentation

xCAT documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs: http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/

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Test Environment

Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:

Hardware Platform Operation System
IBM Power System AC922 RHEL 8.2
IBM Power System AC922 RHEL 8.1
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 8.2
IBM Power S822LC for HPC RHEL 8.1
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 8.2
iDataPlex M4 DX360 RHEL 8.1
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

Restrictions and Known Issues