I am pleased to announce the release of xCAT 2.5 with added functionality for z/VM and Linux on System z. Below are a couple of questions you may have about xCAT.
Q. What is xCAT? A. xCAT is a systems administration toolkit used to manage, deploy, and support thousands of machines that run on every major hardware vendor. It makes systems management easy. For more information, visit http://xcat.sourceforge.net/. Q. Why should I use xCAT? A. High availability, scalability (manages hundreds of Linux virtual servers), high performance (minimal overhead), few dependencies, and open source (free to use). Q. What can xCAT do (on z/VM and Linux on System z)? A. - Power on/off virtual servers - Create/edit/delete virtual servers - Collect software and hardware inventories of virtual servers - Clone virtual servers - Automatically install Linux onto virtual servers using autoyast/kickstart (no more 3270 consoles) - Run commands in parallel - Compare software inventory on virtual servers - Post-scripts - Upgrade the Linux operating system - Provision virtual servers based on an NFS root filesystem Q. How do I get it? A. xCAT is comprised of two installation packages: xcat-core and xcat-deps. You will need to obtain both to install: http://xcat.sourceforge.net/#download. Cookbook for xCAT on z/VM and Linux on System: http://xcat.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xcat/xcat-core/trunk/xCAT-client/share/doc/xCAT2onzVM.pdf . Not sure if xCAT is right for you? See what xCAT can do on YouTube ( http://www.youtube.com/user/xcatuser). Have a good day, Thang Pham ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
