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Victor Hu edited this page Nov 12, 2015 · 2 revisions

xCAT 2.9.2 is ONLY released for AIX

New Functions and Changes in Behavior

  • New Hardware Support

    • Support IBM Power 8 server

      For the hardware control, only HMC-based hardware management is supported.

      The following hardware control commands have been verified: rpower,rcons,rinv,rvitals,rspconfig,rflash

  • New Operating System Support

    • AIX 6.1.9.30 and AIX 7.1.3.45

      Diskful Install

      Verified updatenode command

      Verified syncfile mechanism

  • Enabled the TLSv1 in the connections between xcat client, xcatd, and compute node.

# lsdef -t site clustersite -i xcatsslversion
Object name: clustersite
    xcatsslversion=TLSv1

Test Environment

###xCAT core packages tar ball:

###xCAT dependency package verified with this xCAT release:

Operating Systems which have been verified:

  • AIX6.1 TL8 SP6
  • AIX6.1 TL9 SP5
  • AIX7.1 TL3 SP5

Hardware Platform which have been verified:

  • POWER8 BE (HMC version: V8R8.3.0)

Restrictions and Known Problems

  • Sometimes the command rspconfig <node> sshcfg cannot output correct status of ssh without password configuration. The work around is you can try to ssh to the hmc to test whether the key has been set correctly. Issue 352

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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