XCAT_2.13_Release_Notes

The xCAT 2.13.0 release lines up with the IBM High Performance Computing and technical compute software release on IBM Power Systems S822LC for High Performance Computing servers. Announcement

Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior

Features

Operating System Support

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 ppc64le

Highlighted Functions

• noboot option added to dhcpinterfaces keyword in the site table

  For the IBM S822LC for HPC "Minsky" nodes, the recommended configuration for the integrated Ethernet adapter is to NOT run a shared wire for the BMC and compute-eth0. Rather, use the compute-eth0 dedicated for the BMC and compute-eth1 dedicated for the Operating System. In this configuration xCAT provides an ability to disable sending of the Genesis Kernel to a specific interface in the dhcpinterfaces keyword in the site table See noboot for more information

xCAT Documentation

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

Download xCAT

• xcat-core

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.13.0-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.13.0-ubuntu.tar.bz2

• xcat-dep

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.13.0-ubuntu.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.13.0-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 SP1
IBM Power 750	RHEL 7.3
IBM Power 750	RHEL 6.8
IBM Power 750	SLES 11 SP4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	RHEL 7.3
iDataPlex M4 DX360	RHEL 6.8
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 SP1

Key Issues Resolved

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Restrictions and Known Issues

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