Support Matrix

  RHEL ppc64 CN SLES ppc64 CN RHEL x86_64 CN SLES x86_64 CN Ubuntu x86_64 CN RHEL ppc64le CN SLES ppc64le CN Ubuntu ppc64el CN
RHEL ppc64 MN/SN yes yes yes [1] yes [1] yes [1] yes yes yes
SLES ppc64 MN/SN yes yes yes [1] yes [1] yes [1] yes yes yes
RHEL x86_64 MN/SN yes [4] yes [4] yes yes yes yes yes yes
SLES x86_64 MN/SN yes [4] yes [4] yes yes yes yes yes yes
Ubuntu x86_64 MN/SN yes [5] yes [5] yes yes yes yes yes yes
RHEL ppc64le MN/SN yes [2] yes [2] yes yes yes yes yes yes
SLES ppc64le MN/SN no no yes yes yes yes yes yes
Ubuntu ppc64el MN/SN yes [3] yes [3] yes yes yes yes yes yes

Notes:

  • The support statements refers to hardware control, operating system (os) provisioning, and general purpose system management where we do not see any obvious problems with the indicated combination.
  • For diskless mixed cluster support, the initial diskless image must be created on a node running the target operating system version and architecture. see Building Stateless/Diskless Images for more details.

Footnotes

[1](1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) To manage x86_64 servers from ppc64/ppc64le nodes, will need to install the packages xnba-undi elilo-xcat and syslinux-xcat manually on the management node. And manually run command “cp /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/syslinux/pxelinux.0 /tftpboot/”
[2](1, 2) If the compute nodes are DFM managed systems, will need xCAT 2.9.1 or high versions and the ppc64le DFM and ppc64le hardware server on the management node.
[3](1, 2) If the compute nodes are DFM managed systems, will need xCAT 2.10 or high versions and the ppc64le DFM and ppc64le hardware server on the management node.
[4](1, 2, 3, 4) If the compute nodes are DFM managed systems, will need the ppc64le DFM and ppc64le hardware server on the management node.
[5](1, 2) Does not support DFM managed compute nodes, hardware control does not work.