Advanced Topics

• Chain
  • Understanding chain table
  • Task Type
  • Run Task List During Discovery
  • Run Task List to Configure a Node
• Cluster Maintenance
  • Compute Node
  • Management Node
  • Service Node
  • Software and Firmware Inventory
• Migrate xCat Management node
  • xCAT Management Node Migration
• Confluent
  • confluent-server
  • confluent-client
• Go Conserver
  • Quickstart
  • Configuration
  • REST API
• Docker
  • Quick Start to Use xCAT Docker Image
• Domain Name Resolution
  • Cluster Name Resolution
  • Specifying additional network interfaces for cluster nodes
  • Limited support for user application networks
  • hostname setting on compute node
• GPUs
  • NVIDIA CUDA
• High Availability
  • Configuration considerations
  • Configuration Options
• Hierarchical Clusters / Large Cluster Support
  • Service Nodes
  • Configure a Database
  • Define Service Nodes
  • Configure DHCP
  • Provision Service Nodes
  • Appendix
• Software Kits
  • Prebuilt Kits - IBM High Performance Computing
  • Custom Kits - Creating Software Kits
• Mixed Cluster
  • Support Matrix
  • Power Management Node
  • x86 Management Node
  • Building Stateless/Diskless Images
• Networking
  • Ethernet Switches
  • Open Network Install Environment Switches
  • Switch Discover
  • VLANs
  • InfiniBand (Mellanox)
  • Predict network adapter name during discovery
• PDUs
  • Discovering PDUs
  • Infrastructure PDU
  • Collaborative PDU
• Port Usage
  • xCAT Port Usage Table
• xCAT probe
  • xcatmn
  • detect_dhcpd
  • image
  • osdeploy
  • discovery
  • switch-macmap
  • nodecheck
  • osimagecheck
• RAID
  • Hardware RAID
• Rest API
  • Set Up Web Service for Rest API
  • How to Use xCAT Rest API
  • xCAT Rest API Resources
• Security
  • OpenSSL Configuration
  • Transmission Channel
  • Commands Access Control
  • Auditing
  • Password Management
  • Nodes Inter-Access in The Cluster
• Performance Tuning
  • System Tuning Settings for Linux
  • Tuning xCAT Daemon Attributes
  • Tuning the Database Server
  • Tuning httpd for xCAT node deployments
• SoftLayer
  • Using xCAT in SoftLayer
• System Clone (sysclone)
  • Using System Clone to Deploy Diskful Node
• Zones
  • Overview
  • Configure Zones
  • Create Zones
  • Change Zones
  • Remove Zones
• xcat-inventory
  • Manage the xCAT Cluster Definition under Source Control
  • Define and create your first xCAT cluster easily