xCAT 1.x Downloading and Installation Instructions

1.x Download

The IBM xCAT project is hosted at http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xCAT/
xCAT OSS software is hosted here:  http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~garrick/
TOP500 estimator tool is maintained here:  http://xcat.org/~strops/top500/

xCAT Patches:  http://xcat.org/patch

1.x Quick Start

To install you need to get all 3 xCAT tarballs and extract in the same directory, e.g.:

cd /opt
tar zxvpf /tmp/xcat-dist-core-1.3.0.tgz (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xCAT/)1
tar zxvpf /tmp/xcat-dist-oss-1.3.0.tgz (http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~garrick/)2
tar zxvpf /tmp/xcat-dist-ibm-1.3.0.tgz (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xCAT/)3

  1. The 'core' tarball contains xCAT (source included).
  2. The 'oss' tarball contains all the OSS prerequisites for xCAT (source and binary (x86, x86_64, ia64, ppc64) included).
  3. The 'ibm' tarball contains prerequisites for older (non-BladeCenter, non-IPMI) nodes (optional, but recommended, binary only).  The 'ibm' tarball will be phased out when 2.0 releases.