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2.16 Release Notes

Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior

Features

Operating System Support

Highlighted Changes

Restrictions and Known Issues

  • When provisioning a node with a diskfull install of RHEL 8.X and installing the NVIDIA CUDA 11 drivers and toolkit as part of the osimage pkglist, the diskfull installation fails due to changes in the NVIDIA CUDA packages that are incompatible with kickstart installation. This issue only applies to diskfull installation; diskless installation is not impacted.

    There are two available workarounds for this issue:

    • The NVIDIA CUDA 11 packages can be added to the osimage otherpkglist instead of the osimage pkglist. This method will require an additional reboot after installation completes for the NVIDIA driver to be loaded.

    • xCAT provides a sample postscript that can be used as an example of how to install the NVIDIA CUDA packages for diskfull installs instead of relying on the osimage mechanisms. This sample postscript is available here:

      NVIDIA CUDA 11 diskfull installation postscript

xCAT Documentation

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

Download xCAT

Test Environment

Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:

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