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Description
Efficiently oversee and control your servers with a range of Intel® server management tools and firmware designed to notify users of potential issues, help maintain up-to-date firmware, and keep track of power and thermal conditions within the data center. Gain complete server management capabilities through the use of a virtual keyboard, video, mouse (KVM), and virtual media redirection. At the heart of this system is a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), a dedicated microcontroller located on the server's motherboard, equipped with features and northbound interfaces that enable users to monitor and manage their servers using custom management software, established solutions like Intel® Data Center Manager and Intel® Server Utilities, or third-party applications. The platform also offers comprehensive Redfish schemas for managing and updating firmware while keeping an organized asset inventory. Additionally, it fully supports legacy protocols like IPMI, SNMP, and SMTP, with IPMI ensuring 2.0 compliance and incorporating several extra OEM commands for enhanced functionality. This robust infrastructure ensures that users have a reliable and detailed way to maintain optimal server performance.
Description
xCAT, or Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit, is a versatile open-source solution aimed at streamlining the deployment, scaling, and oversight of both bare metal servers and virtual machines. It delivers extensive management functionalities tailored for environments such as high-performance computing clusters, render farms, grids, web farms, online gaming infrastructures, cloud setups, and data centers. Built on a foundation of established system administration practices, xCAT offers a flexible framework that allows system administrators to identify hardware servers, perform remote management tasks, deploy operating systems on physical or virtual machines in both disk and diskless configurations, set up and manage user applications, and execute parallel system management operations. This toolkit is compatible with a range of operating systems, including Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE, and CentOS, as well as architectures such as ppc64le, x86_64, and ppc64. Moreover, it supports various management protocols, including IPMI, HMC, FSP, and OpenBMC, which enable seamless remote console access. In addition to its core functionalities, xCAT's extensible nature allows for ongoing enhancements and adaptations to meet the evolving needs of modern IT infrastructures.
API Access
Has API
No
API Access
Has API
Yes
Integrations
Aiven for PostgreSQL
No
CentOS
No
Chooch
Yes
FishOS
Yes
IBM PowerVM
No
KVM
No
MariaDB
No
MySQL
No
NVIDIA Cumulus Linux
No
PowerAI
No
Integrations
Aiven for PostgreSQL
Yes
CentOS
Yes
Chooch
No
FishOS
No
IBM PowerVM
Yes
KVM
Yes
MariaDB
Yes
MySQL
Yes
NVIDIA Cumulus Linux
Yes
PowerAI
Yes
Pricing Details
No price information available.
Free Trial
No
Free Version
No
Pricing Details
Free
Free Trial
No
Free Version
Yes
Deployment
Web-Based
Yes
On-Premises
No
iPhone App
No
iPad App
No
Android App
No
Windows
Yes
Mac
No
Linux
Yes
Chromebook
No
Deployment
Web-Based
No
On-Premises
No
iPhone App
No
iPad App
No
Android App
No
Windows
No
Mac
No
Linux
Yes
Chromebook
No
Customer Support
Business Hours
Yes
Live Rep (24/7)
No
Online Support
Yes
Customer Support
Business Hours
No
Live Rep (24/7)
No
Online Support
Yes
Types of Training
Training Docs
Yes
Webinars
No
Live Training (Online)
No
In Person
Yes
Types of Training
Training Docs
Yes
Webinars
No
Live Training (Online)
No
In Person
No
Vendor Details
Company Name
Intel
Founded
1968
Country
United States
Website
www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/server-management/intel-server-management.html
Vendor Details
Company Name
xCAT
Founded
2024
Website
xcat.org