XCAT_2.14.4_Release_Notes - xcat2/xcat-core GitHub Wiki

Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior

Features

Operating System Support

RHEL7.6 RC
ubuntu18.04.1
SELS15 diskful deploy from SLES 12.3 Management Node[Beta]
- Deploy SLES15 x86_64/ppc64le diskful CN form SLES12.3 MN

xCAT Documentation

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

Download xCAT

xcat-core
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.14.4-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.14.4-ubuntu.tar.bz2
xcat-dep
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.14.4-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.14.4-ubuntu.tar.bz2

Test Environment

Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:

Hardware Platform	Operation System
IBM Power System AC922	RHEL-Alt 7.6 RC
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	RHEL 7.6 RC
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	Ubuntu 16.04.1
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	Ubuntu 18.04.1
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	SLES 12 SP3
IBM Power 750	RHEL 7.6 RC
IBM Power 750	RHEL 6.10
IBM Power 750	SLES 11 SP4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	RHEL 7.6 RC
iDataPlex M4 DX360	RHEL 6.10
iDataPlex M4 DX360	SLES 11 SP4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	Ubuntu 16.04.4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	Ubuntu 18.04.1
iDataPlex M4 DX360	SLES 12 SP3

Key Issues Resolved

Issue #5536 petitboot disjoint mode does not work during the service node booting

Issue #5663 prescripts not inherited when set site.hierarchicalattrs

Issue #5649 makedhcp misleading error message

Issue #5640 genimage failure might cause /proc umounted

Issue #5676 prescript actions don't seem to be working as documented

Issue #5511 xcatlib.sh doesn't encode hyphens, breaks confignetwork for devices with hyphenated names

Issue #5534 "hierarchicalattrs" cause bad performance when querying nodes attributes

Issue #5506 Unable to get IP for OPA interface in compute

Issue #5252 syncfiles fails during stateful deployment but updatenode -F works

Restrictions and Known Issues

Issue #5121 rspconfig failed to set bmc ip etc in some specific condition

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 #5057 This issue cannot be reproduced, and the work around is : check the bmc state use rflash <node> -l, if the target firmware state is Active(+), execute rpower <node> boot to reboot the host and let new firmware take effect.

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