[xcat-user] Customer Feedback

[Egan Ford]

Thanks for the feedback!

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Torsten Bloth<torsten at bloth.net> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> let me provide a short feedback from a customer where we installed xCAT
> on a IBM Blade LS22/42 blade cluster in Germany, Old Europe. :-)
>
> We installed the cluster in late 2008 and it went all fine, at least
> from a xCAT perspective. The cluster was installed and stateless booted
> in less than ONE DAY. To be honest, with xCAT and stateless and Blade
> such a setup is no rocket science. Prepare the networks, get the MACs,
> establish a first base for the stateless image, build it, boot the
> cluster, be happy
> ... and start tuning.
>
> Anyway, these days the customer started integrating a 2+ year old IBM
> x3455 based cluster into the existing Blade cluster.
> First, they made it by their own. So they are xCAT experts now! Great.
> Second, the integration went absolutely straight forward! Wow!
> (okay, some SOL issues with x3455, but we found a quick solution)
>
> They now have a the new and the old cluster merged, booted with
> stateless images and both attached to their GPFS (whereas only the Blade
> thing has GPFSoRDMA.
>
> Thanks to the xCAT developers and the community!
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