XCAT_2.13.8_Release_Notes

2.13.8 Pre Release Notes (GA Date: 11/03/17)

Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior

Features

Highlighted Functions

• OpenBMC support (Alpha level code)
  • rspconfig to set OpenBMC ip/netmask/gateway/vlan
  • rflash and rspconfig sshcfg run parallelly
• performance enhancement
  • Analyze nodeset db access problem
  • refine nodeset to fix the issue that if one node failed, the nodeset for multiple nodes will be broke.
• For hardware discovery
  • enhance "xcatprobe clusterstatus" tool to report cluster status
• For culumus switch
  • culumus switch OS update
  • configuration store and recovery
• xCAT MN HA
• PEGAS 1.0

xCAT Documentation

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

Download xCAT

• xcat-core

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.13.8-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.13.8-ubuntu.tar.bz2

• xcat-dep

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.13.8-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.13.8-ubuntu.tar.bz2

Test Environment

Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:

Hardware Platform	Operation System
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	RHEL 7.4
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 7.4
IBM Power 750	RHEL 6.9
IBM Power 750	SLES 11 SP4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	RHEL 7.4
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 #3513 For the latest xCAT-genesis-base, the mlx4_en driver 2.2-1 (Feb 2014) is included, it can not support Mellanox Ethernet NIC that need driver newer than 2.2-1, for more information, please reference build genesis locally with latest RH MN

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