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Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit
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xCAT stands for E\ **x**\ treme **C**\ loud **A**\ dministration **T**\ oolkit.
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xCAT offers complete management of clouds, clusters, HPC, grids, datacenters,
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renderfarms, online gaming infrastructure, and whatever tomorrows next buzzword may be.
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**xCAT enables the administrator to:**
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#. Discover the hardware servers
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#. Execute remote system management
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#. Provision operating systems on physical or virtual machines
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#. Provision machines in Diskful (stateful) and Diskless (stateless)
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#. Install and configure user applications
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#. Parallel system management
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#. Integrate xCAT in Cloud
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You've reached xCAT documentation site, The main page product page is http://xcat.org
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**xCAT** is an open source project hosted on `GitHub <https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/>`_.
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Go to GitHub to view the source, open issues, ask questions, and participate in the project.
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Enjoy!
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The xCAT sunset was only a quick eclipse
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Dear xCAT Community,
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The xCAT sunset has changed course. VersatusHPC has been invited to join the xCAT Consortium, and future development will move toward direct upstream contributions coordinated with the Consortium and its existing member companies.
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That matters most for Enterprise Linux 10 (EL10). EL10 support is coming to xCAT, restoring a future operating-system path for sites that still rely on xCAT. This is an important change from the previous sunset guidance, where the lack of an EL10 path was one of the strongest reasons to move away from xCAT.
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The xCAT Consortium continues to recommend **Confluent** as the long-term successor to xCAT, and that remains the Consortium position. Users planning new cluster-management deployments should evaluate Confluent and its xCAT comparison documentation.
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At the same time, xCAT is no longer sunsetted. The Consortium and participating companies will continue updating xCAT while there is community and user demand for it.
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In summary:
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- xCAT development is continuing upstream through the Consortium and participating companies.
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- Enterprise Linux 10 support is coming.
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- Confluent remains the Consortium-recommended successor and migration path.
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- xCAT updates will continue while there is community and user demand.
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We want to thank the xCAT Consortium and community for keeping this project moving. The sun went behind the moon for a moment, but xCAT is still here.
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For more information on **Confluent** and how to get started, please visit the **Confluent**: `Project Page <https://github.com/xcat2/confluent>`_, `Documentation <https://xcat2.github.io/confluent-docs/>`_ or `Confluent vs xCAT comparison <https://xcat2.github.io/confluent-docs/miscellaneous/confluentvxcat/>`_.
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With thanks,
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The xCAT Consortium
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Table of Contents
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=================
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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overview/index.rst
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guides/install-guides/index.rst
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guides/get-started/index.rst
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guides/admin-guides/index.rst
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advanced/index.rst
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QA/index.rst
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references/index.rst
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troubleshooting/index.rst
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developers/index.rst
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help.rst
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security/index.rst
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