xCAT 2.9.3 is ONLY released for AIX
New Functions and Changes in Behavior
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New Operating System Support
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AIX 7.2.0, AIX 7.1.4.1
Diskfull Install
Verified updatenode command
Verified syncfile mechanism
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New Features
- Support the new format 'file -> (noderange for permitted nodes) file' in synclist file for file syncing. With this feature you can specify which nodes this entry applies for.
Test Environment
###xCAT core packages tar ball:
###xCAT dependency package verified with this xCAT release:
The following xCAT dependency packages were built against AIX 7.2
- perl-DBD-SQLite ver 1.48
- perl-DBI ver 1.634
- perl-Debug-Trace ver 0.05
- perl-Digest-HMAC ver 1.03
- perl-Digest-MD5 ver 2.54
- perl-Digest-SHA ver 5.95
- perl-Digest-SHA1 ver 2.13
- perl-Socket-SSL ver 1.38
- perl-IO-Tty ver 1.12
- perl-Net-DNS ver 1.04
- perl-Net-IP ver 1.26
- perl-Net-Telnet ver 3.04
- perl-XML-Simple ver 2.22
- net-snmp ver 5.7.3
- cURL ver 7.46.0
Only SQLite is supported on AIX 7.2. MySQL and PostgreSQL is not supported on AIX 7.2.
Operating Systems which have been verified:
AIX6.1 TL8 SP6
AIX6.1 TL9 SP5
AIX7.1 TL4 SP1
AIX7.2
Hardware Platform which have been verified:
POWER 7
POWER8 BE (HMC version: V8R8.3.0)
Issues Fixed
The following key Issues are resolved for this release and highlighted below:
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Issue #573:
xcatd
displays error message when performing restart. Restart ofxcatd
causes core dump on AIX. -
Issue #569: Update of xCAT will overwrite values in
site.xcatsslversion
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Restrictions and Known Problems
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Issue #691: xCAT migration from 2.9.2 on aix71R to 2.9.3 on aix720 failed
When updating both xCAT 2.9.2 => xCAT 2.9.3 and AIX 7.1 => AIX 7.2, use the following procedure as a reference:
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Update AIX 7.1 to AIX 7.2 first
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Remove the incorrect rpm packages installed for AIX 7.1
rpm -e perl-Expect-1.21-3 perl-Digest-SHA-5.48-3 \ perl-IO-Stty-0.03-2 net-snmp-5.7.2-3 \ net-snmp-devel-5.7.2-3 net-snmp-perl-5.7.2-3 \ perl-version-0.82-2 perl-Crypt-SSLeay
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Install xCAT dependency packages
./instoss
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If you get the message
ln: 0653-421 /lib/libperl.a exists. Specify -f to remove /lib/libperl.a before linking.
during the update ofxcat-dep
, remove the sybolic link/lib/libperl.a
.rm /lib/libperl.a
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Install xCAT
./instxcat
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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.