Extreme Cloud/Cluster Administration Toolkit¶
xCAT stands for Extreme Cloud/Cluster Administration Toolkit.
xCAT offers complete management of clouds, clusters, HPC, grids, datacenters, renderfarms, online gaming infrastructure, and whatever tomorrows next buzzword may be.
- xCAT enables the administrator to:
- Discover the hardware servers
- Execute remote system management
- Provision operating systems on physical or virtual machines
- Provision machines in Diskful (stateful) and Diskless (stateless)
- Install and configure user applications
- Parallel system management
- Integrate xCAT in Cloud
You’ve reached xCAT documentation site, The main page product page is http://xcat.org
xCAT is an open source project hosted on GitHub. Go to GitHub to view the source, open issues, ask questions, and participate in the project.
Enjoy!
Table of Contents¶
- Overview
- Install Guides
- Admin Guide
- Advanced Topics
- Chain
- Cluster Maintenance
- Migrate xCat Management node
- Confluent
- Go Conserver
- Docker
- Domain Name Resolution
- GPUs
- High Availability
- Hierarchical Clusters / Large Cluster Support
- Software Kits
- Mixed Cluster
- Networking
- PDUs
- Port Usage
- xCAT probe
- RAID
- Rest API
- Security
- Performance Tuning
- SoftLayer
- System Clone (sysclone)
- Zones
- xcat-inventory
- Questions & Answers
- Reference Implementation
- Troubleshooting
- Developers
- Need Help
- Security Notices