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XCAT_2.13.4_Release_Notes

Victor Hu edited this page May 19, 2017 · 11 revisions

Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior

Features

Operating System Support

  • RHEV 4.1 (ppc64le) Diskful OS deployment

Highlighted Functions

  • OpenBMC support (Alpha, use at your own risk)

    • rinv
    • bmcdiscover
    • rinstall
  • Power9 Early Hardware Support

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 S822LC for HPC RHEL 7.3
IBM Power S822LC for HPC Ubuntu 14.04.4
IBM Power S822LC for HPC Ubuntu 16.04.1
IBM Power S822LC for HPC SLES 12 SP2 Issue #2322
IBM Power 750 RHEL 7.3
IBM Power 750 RHEL 6.9
IBM Power 750 SLES 11 SP4
iDataPlex M4 DX360 RHEL 7.3
iDataPlex M4 DX360 RHEL 6.9
iDataPlex M4 DX360 SLES 11 SP4
iDataPlex M4 DX360 Ubuntu 14.04.4
iDataPlex M4 DX360 Ubuntu 16.04.1
iDataPlex M4 DX360 SLES 12 SP2 Issue #2322

Key Issues Resolved

  • Issue #2908 Special processing for S822LC (8335-GTA, "Firestone") firmware update from v810 to v820
  • Issue #3047 Regular Expression broken it lastest development build 5/12/17
  • Issue #3042 confignetwork does not support capital letter in nictypes
  • Issue #2905 xcatd 3002 port disappear
  • Issue #2795 performing yum update xCAT* overwrote our log rotate settings
  • Issue #2794 Nodeset fails to generate /tftpboot config files if ip attribute is not set
  • Issue #2636 xcat command returns 0 when cmd fails due authorization

Restrictions and Known Issues

  • Issue #2578 makehosts and confignics need to Regular Expression handling for nicips in nics table

News

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.
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