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enhancement_for_rinstall_command

penguhyang edited this page May 26, 2016 · 2 revisions

Overview

We want to use rinstall command to provison OS. It can support ppc64le ppc64 x86_64 arch. It support kvm, hmc, kvm management type. The goal is to make this command as a convenience command to help xCAT users to provision.

Interface

The syntax of the rinstall command:

rinstall [noderange] [parameters]

For example

rinstall [noderange]
rinstall [noderange] -O [osimage] 
rinstall [noderange] -c
rinstall -h
rinstall -v

rinstall -h

Display the usage of rinstall.

  • Display the basic usage
  • Display all the support parameters

rinstall [noderange] -O [osimage]

-O|--osimage is specified, ignore any -a,-p,-o options Provison nodes using the osimage

rinstall [noderange]

Provison nodes using provmethod defined in nodetype If this node not defined in tables using install as default

rinstall [noderange] -c

If -c is specified, it will then run rcons on the node This is allowed only if one node in the noderange

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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