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Victor Hu edited this page May 15, 2017 · 11 revisions

2.13.4 Pre Release Notes (GA Date: 5/19/17 )

Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior

Features

Operating System Support

  • RHV 4.1 (ppc64le) Diskful OS deployment

Highlighted Functions

  • OpenBMC support (Alpha level code)

    • rspconfig ip/netmask/gateway
    • rsetboot net/hd/cd/def/status
    • rinv model/serial/dimm/cpu/vpd/firm/uuid/guid/all

  • WSP EUH support

    • PGS Alpha1 diskless and diskful OS deployment
    • bmcsetup to not run user configuration related function through ipmi in-band

  • makedhcp performance enhancemement(Phase 1)

  • nodeset performance enhancement(Phase 1)

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

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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