XCAT_2.13.5_Release_Notes

Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior

Features

Highlighted Functions

• OpenBMC support (Alpha level code)

  • rvitals

• Enhancements to self testing tool xcat-test

• Service node pool support for rhels7 ppc64le diskless

• Mellanox cumulus switch ZTP based discovery and auto-configuration

• Performance enhancements

  • makedhcp, makedns:

    • Reduce the time of handling DB operation and name resolution.

  • nodeset:

    • Processing nodeset request on a large number of nodes in parallel

• [xcat-deps] ipmitool-xcat package updated to version 1.8.18 for the following OS

  • RHEL7.x
  • SLES12.x
  • Ubuntu14.04.x

• [xcat-deps] conserver-xcat package updated to version 8.2.1

xCAT Documentation

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

Download xCAT

• xcat-core

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.13.5-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.13.5-ubuntu.tar.bz2

• xcat-dep

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.13.5-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.13.5-ubuntu.tar.bz2

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 #3284 While selinux on KVM host was reconfigured from enforcing to disabled, rpower failed to power previous created KVM guest on

Issue #3297 rinstall could not set runcmd and runimg's currchain if using rinstall <noderange> "runcmd=cmdtest,shell"

Won't Fix

Issue #3358 chdef of mgmt type from ipmi to openbmc does not move some required information