Configuring and Managing AIX Clusters Using xCAT 2
An IBM Redbooks publication
Note: This is publication is now archived. For reference only.
Abstract
This IBM® Redbooks® publication positions the new Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit 2.x (xCAT 2) against the IBM Cluster Systems Management (CSM) for IBM Power Systems™ running AIX in a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment.
This book provides information to help you:
- Understand, from a broad perspective, a new clustering management architecture. We emphasize the benefits of this new solution for deploying HPC clusters of large numbers of nodes.
- Install and customize the new xCAT cluster management in various configurations.
- Design and create a solution to migrate from existing CSM configurations to xCAT-managed clusters for IBM System p platforms running AIX.
Table of Contents
Part 1. Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction to clustering
Chapter 2. xCAT 2 architecture
Chapter 3. CSM and xCAT functional comparison
Part 2. Implementation
Chapter 4. CSM To xCAT 2 transition
Chapter 5. Installing xCAT 2 on a new cluster
Part 3. Managing
Chapter 6. xCAT 2 - advanced administrative topics
Appendix A. Configuring syslog-ng
Appendix B. Additional material