Mixed_Cluster_Support_Matrix

Supported xCAT cross-distribution hardware control and OS installation environments

Notes:

a. All the "yes" and "no" statements in the table are referring to hardware control and os provisioning, for the general purpose management like file sync and parallel commands, we do not see any obvious problem with any of the combination.

b. The "yes" means should work but may or may not have been verified by the xCAT development/testing team.

c. For diskless node, need another node that has the same os version and arch with the compute nodes to create diskless image, see Building_a_Stateless_Image_of_a_Different_Architecture_or_OS for more details

	RedHat ppc64 CN	SLES ppc64 CN	RedHat x86_64 CN	SLES x86_64 CN	Ubuntu x86_64 CN	RedHat ppc64le CN	SLES ppc64le CN	Ubuntu ppc64el CN	AIX CN
RedHat ppc64 MN/SN	yes	yes	yes1	yes1	yes1	yes	yes	yes	no
SLES ppc64 MN/SN	yes	yes	yes1	yes1	yes1	yes	yes	yes	no
RedHat x86_64 MN/SN	yes4	yes4	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no
SLES x86_64 MN/SN	yes4	yes4	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no
Ubuntu x86_64 MN/SN	yes5	yes5	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no
RedHat ppc64le MN/SN	yes2	yes2	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no
SLES ppc64le MN/SN	no	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no
Ubuntu ppc64el MN/SN	yes3	yes3	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no
AIX MN/SN	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes

Notes:

1. 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. 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. 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. If the compute nodes are DFM managed systems, will need the ppc64le DFM and ppc64le hardware server on the management node.

5. Does not support DFM managed compute nodes, hardware control does not work.