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XCAT 2.3.2 Release Notes

Bp-sawyers — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:21:25 GMT

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	* New flexible NFS-root option that let's you specify which parts of the OS should be stateless and which should be stateful, and uses minimal memory on the node. See http://xcat.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xcat/xcat-core/trunk/xCAT-client/share/doc/xCAT-Statelite.pdf		* New flexible NFS-root option that let's you specify which parts of the OS should be stateless and which should be stateful, and uses minimal memory on the node. See http://xcat.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xcat/xcat-core/trunk/xCAT-client/share/doc/xCAT-Statelite.pdf
	* Support for Fedora 12 nodes		* Support for Fedora 12 nodes
-	* A slightly new build and ~~packing~~ process for xCAT on AIX. (More similar to the xCAT on linux process.)	+	* A slightly new build and packaging process for xCAT on AIX. (More similar to the xCAT on linux process.)
	* New CSM to xCAT migration doc: http://xcat.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xcat/xcat-core/trunk/xCAT-client/share/doc/xCAT2CSMigration.pdf		* New CSM to xCAT migration doc: http://xcat.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xcat/xcat-core/trunk/xCAT-client/share/doc/xCAT2CSMigration.pdf
	* Many [http://xcat.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xcat/xcat-core/trunk/xCAT-client/share/doc/index.html documentation] updates		* Many [http://xcat.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xcat/xcat-core/trunk/xCAT-client/share/doc/index.html documentation] updates

XCAT Features

Bp-sawyers — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:15:10 GMT

OS Support::

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	==OS Support:==		==OS Support:==
-	Note: the list of supported distros is constantly changing, but here's what's supported as of 4/16/09:	+	Note: the list of supported distros is constantly changing, but here's what's supported as of 1/4/2010:
-	* Stateless ("diskless") including RAM-root, compressed RAM-root, and NFS-root ~~with ram overlay~~ support:	+	* Stateless ("diskless") including RAM-root, compressed RAM-root, and NFS-root support:
-	** SLES10 SP2 & higher, SLES 11, RHEL5.x, CentOS5.x, ~~Fedora8,~~ Fedora 9, AIX 5.3 & 6.1 (all available Technology Levels)	+	** SLES10 SP2 & higher, SLES 11, RHEL5.x, CentOS5.x, Fedora 8 - Fedora 12, AIX 5.3 & 6.1 (all available Technology Levels)
	* Stateful, "diskless" using iSCSI:		* Stateful, "diskless" using iSCSI:
-	** SLES10 SP2 & higher, SLES 11, RHEL5.x, and CentOS5.x, Fedora8, Windows 2008 ~~(experimental)~~	+	** SLES10 SP2 & higher, SLES 11, RHEL5.x, and CentOS5.x, Fedora8, Windows 2008, Windows 7
	* Traditional local disk and SAN provisioning using native deployment methods:		* Traditional local disk and SAN provisioning using native deployment methods:
-	** SLES10 SP2 & higher, SLES 11, RHEL4.x, RHEL5.x, CentOS4.x, CentOS5.x, ~~Fedora8, Fedora9~~, AIX 5.3 & 6.1 (all available Technology Levels), Windows 2008	+	** SLES10 SP2 & higher, SLES 11, RHEL4.x, RHEL5.x, CentOS4.x, CentOS5.x, Fedora 8 - Fedora 12, AIX 5.3 & 6.1 (all available Technology Levels), Windows 2008, Windows 7
	* Imaging (cloning):		* Imaging (cloning):
	** AIX 5.3 & 6.1 (all available Technology Levels), Windows 2008		** AIX 5.3 & 6.1 (all available Technology Levels), Windows 2008

XCAT 2.3.2 Release Notes

Bp-sawyers — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:07:59 GMT

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These are changes since the 2.3.1 release. Also see the [[xCAT 2.3.1 Release Notes]].

==Changes in 2.3.2 Since 2.3.1==

* The postscript behaviour has been restored to the xCAT 2.2 behavior (i.e. run before the reboot for RHEL installations). A new column in the postscripts table called postbootscripts allows you to specify postscripts that should run after the reboot. See http://xcat.sourceforge.net/man5/postscripts.5.html for details.
* New flexible NFS-root option that let's you specify which parts of the OS should be stateless and which should be stateful, and uses minimal memory on the node. See http://xcat.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xcat/xcat-core/trunk/xCAT-client/share/doc/xCAT-Statelite.pdf
* Support for Fedora 12 nodes
* A slightly new build and packing process for xCAT on AIX. (More similar to the xCAT on linux process.)
* New CSM to xCAT migration doc: http://xcat.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xcat/xcat-core/trunk/xCAT-client/share/doc/xCAT2CSMigration.pdf
* Many [http://xcat.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xcat/xcat-core/trunk/xCAT-client/share/doc/index.html documentation] updates

==Bugs Fixed in 2.3.2==

Many bugs were fixed in 2.3.2, for details see http://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=browse&group_id=208749&atid=1006945 .

Release Notes

Bp-sawyers — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:33:42 GMT

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	=xCAT 2 Release Notes=		=xCAT 2 Release Notes=
		+	* [[xCAT 2.3.2 Release Notes]]
	* [[XCAT 2.3.1 Release Notes]]		* [[XCAT 2.3.1 Release Notes]]
	* [[XCAT 2.3 Release Notes\|xCAT 2.3 Release Notes]]		* [[XCAT 2.3 Release Notes\|xCAT 2.3 Release Notes]]

Wish List for xCAT 2

Ligc — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:57:52 GMT

Features Planned for xCAT 2.4 (4/2010):

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	\| \|\| Add a new attribute in site table to let the rpower wait for a while between each operation, it is useful especially when using rpower to boot diskless nodes in scaling environment.		\| \|\| Add a new attribute in site table to let the rpower wait for a while between each operation, it is useful especially when using rpower to boot diskless nodes in scaling environment.
-	\|\| Guang Cheng \|\|	+	\|\| Guang Cheng \|\| Done
	\|-		\|-
-	\| \|\| Improve conserver scaling via hierarchical support \|\| Guang Cheng~~, Hua Zhong~~\|\| Done	+	\| \|\| Improve conserver scaling via hierarchical support \|\| Guang Cheng\|\| Done
	\|-		\|-
	\| \|\| Web interface \|\| Bruce, Min Jun \|\| Ongoing \|\|		\| \|\| Web interface \|\| Bruce, Min Jun \|\| Ongoing \|\|
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	\| \|\| Small improvements: change grep of /etc/passwd to use getent/lsuser, add V support to MsgUtils::message(), have the L option of MsgUtils::message() also append a newline, have xdsh -e support hierarchy. Move hierarchy processing from pre_process to process in the plugin so errors can be processed. \|\| Lissa \|\|		\| \|\| Small improvements: change grep of /etc/passwd to use getent/lsuser, add V support to MsgUtils::message(), have the L option of MsgUtils::message() also append a newline, have xdsh -e support hierarchy. Move hierarchy processing from pre_process to process in the plugin so errors can be processed. \|\| Lissa \|\|
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-	\| \|\| Support relative paths in all the plugins that accept paths (see bug 2873693 comments) \|\| ~~CDL~~ \|\|	+	\| \|\| Support relative paths in all the plugins that accept paths (see bug 2873693 comments) \|\| Guang Cheng \|\|
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-	\| \|\| Have mkvm create the single partition that is needed for p5 and p6 systems in clusters (I think the IB configCEC script has code to do this that you can use). \|\| ~~CDL~~ \|\|	+	\| \|\| Have mkvm create the single partition that is needed for p5 and p6 systems in clusters (I think the IB configCEC script has code to do this that you can use). \|\| Zhi Yong\|\|
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	\| \|\| Provide option to change pw of MM/FSP/BPA in rspconfig: use old pw to connect, chg pw in devive, if successful, change it in db. \|\| CDL \|\|		\| \|\| Provide option to change pw of MM/FSP/BPA in rspconfig: use old pw to connect, chg pw in devive, if successful, change it in db. \|\| CDL \|\|