XCAT_2.13.6_Release_Notes

Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior

Features

Highlighted Functions

• OpenBMC support (Alpha level code)

  • rflash list/upload/acitvate/delete/check
  • rsetboot net/hd/def
  • rspconfig retrieve OpenBMC ip/netmask/gateway information

• nodeset performance enhancement(Phase 3)

  • Dispatch request to the specified service nodes with 'disjointdhcps'
  • Enhance the output of nodeset in hierarchical cluster

• Network configuration interface: postscript confignetwork is the new interface to configure network adapters on SN/CN

• For hardware discovery

  • Enhance bmcdiscover to use BMC MAC address to map BMC with its host
  • Enhance "xcatprobe discovery" tool to do configuration check before starting hardware discovery

• [xcat-deps] Made new xcat-genesis-base-ppc64 package based on Fedora 26 ppc64

New Operating System Support

• RH7.4

New hardware Support

• Boston server

xCAT Documentation

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

Download xCAT

• xcat-core

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.13.6-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.13.6-ubuntu.tar.bz2

• xcat-dep

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.13.6-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.13.6-ubuntu.tar.bz2

Test Environment

Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:

Hardware Platform	Operation System
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	RHEL 7.4
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 SP2 Issue #2322
IBM Power 750	RHEL 7.4
IBM Power 750	RHEL 6.9
IBM Power 750	SLES 11 SP4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	RHEL 7.4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	RHEL 6.9
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 SP2 Issue #2322

Key Issues Resolved

Issue #3409 Makehosts doesn't seem to handle regex properly

Issue #3414 Incorrect petitboot configuration for nodeset shell in flat hierarchical

Issue #3094 rinstall will hung when it failed to terminate sub process with SIGKILL

Issue #3297 rinstall could not set runcmd and runimg's currchain if using “ rinstall noderange "runcmd=cmdtest,shell"”

Issue #3563 makedhcp cannot dispatch the requesting to all available xcatd when the request is from service node

Issue #3602 confignetwork cannot work when regular expression is used in nics table

Issue #3408 dodiscovery sending findme packet 4 times for each node

Issue #3460 Changes required for 'rflash -c' to support more detailed firmware information for LC Big Data boxes

Issue #3535 rinstall/winstall -c doesn't open console

Restrictions and Known Issues

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