XCAT_2.13.10_Release_Notes

2.13.10 Pre Release Notes (Target: 1/26/18)

Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior

Features

Highlighted Functions

• xCAT configuration data export or import for version control

  • For node definitions, osimage, postscript

• goconserver to provide remote access to system consoles

  • enhancement to support hierarchy
  • enhancement for the console replay command (support to customize the number of console lines from rcons)

• OpenBMC support

  • rspconfig to set OpenBMC ip/netmask/gateway/vlan
  • new prototype to call OpenBMC RESTful interface?
  • new OpenBMC python version rpm installation steps:
    • Use yum install gcc and python-devel.ppc64le:

      yum install -y gcc python-devel.ppc64le 
      

    • Install pip refer to https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/. Use pip to install gevent, greenlet, certifi, chardet, idna, urllib3, requests:

      pip install gevent greenlet certifi chardet idna urllib3 requests
      

    • Download and install xCAT-openbmc-py-2.13.10-snap201801250418.noarch.rpm:

      wget http://xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-dep/2.x_Linux/beta/xCAT-openbmc-py-2.13.10-snap201801250418.noarch.rpm
      yum localinstall -y xCAT-openbmc-py-2.13.10-snap201801250418.noarch.rpm
      

    • enable OpenBMC python version:

      export XCAT_OPENBMC_PYTHON=YES
      rpower cn1 status
      

• For hardware discovery

  • enhance "xcatprobe clusterstatus" tool to report cluster status
  • enhance xCAT-genesis-base to include all drivers installed on the host for ppc64(Fedora 26) and x86_64(centos7)

xCAT Documentation

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

Download xCAT

• xcat-core

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.13.10-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.13.10-ubuntu.tar.bz2

• xcat-dep

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.13.10-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.13.10-ubuntu.tar.bz2

Test Environment

Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:

Hardware Platform	Operation System
IBM Power System AC922	RHEL 7.4 for Power Little Endian (POWER9)
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 #4629 For sites that would like to forward to their own DNS servers, the site table includes the 'forwarders' attribute to allow for this. If the site internal DNS resolves RFC1918 addresses, xCAT dns doesn't work.

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