XCAT_2.16.1_Release_Notes - xcat2/xcat-core GitHub Wiki
2.16.1 Release Notes (November 6 2020)
Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior
Features
Operating System Support
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RHEL 8.2
- For complete list of supported operating systems see xCAT2 Release Information and Compute node support matrix
Highlighted Changes
- For provisioning x86 nodes, pull request https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/6772 added code to skip the elilo bootloader, if possible. If you experience problems provisioning x86 nodes without elilo, please open an issue. As a workaround, you can force the use of elilo by adding an explicit
return 0from/opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/xnba.pm:has_efistub(). When using this workaround on an Ubuntu xCAT management server, an updated elilo-xcat package is also required. To install the updated package, download it with:wget https://xcat.org/files/xcat/repos/apt/devel/xcat-dep/pool/main/e/elilo-xcat/elilo-xcat_3.14-5_all.deband thenapt-get install ./elilo-xcat_3.14-5_all.debprior to provisioning x86 compute nodes.
xCAT Documentation
xCAT documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs: http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/
Download xCAT
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xcat-core
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.16.1-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.16.1-ubuntu.tar.bz2
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xcat-dep
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.16.1-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.16.1-ubuntu.tar.bz2
Test Environment
Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:
| Hardware Platform | Operation System |
|---|---|
| IBM Power System AC922 | RHEL 8.2 |
| IBM Power System AC922 | RHEL 8.1 |
| IBM Power System AC922 | RHEL-Alt 7.6 |
| IBM Power System AC922 | SLES 15.0 |
| IBM Power System AC922 | Ubuntu 18.04.2 |
| IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 8.2 |
| IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 8.1 |
| IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 7.7 |
| IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 7.6 |
| IBM Power S822LC for HPC | Ubuntu 16.04.5 |
| IBM Power S822LC for HPC | Ubuntu 18.04.2 |
| IBM Power S822LC for HPC | SLES 12.3 |
| iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 8.2 |
| iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 8.1 |
| iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 7.6 |
| iDataPlex M4 DX360 | Ubuntu 16.04.5 |
| iDataPlex M4 DX360 | Ubuntu 18.04.2 |
| iDataPlex M4 DX360 | SLES 15.0 |
| iDataPlex M4 DX360 | SLES 12.3 |