Release Notes

ICE ClusterWare™ Release v12.4.0 is the latest update to the ClusterWare platform.

For the most up-to-date product documentation, visit https://docs.ice.penguinsolutions.com/. The most recent version will accurately reflect the current state of the ClusterWare yum repository of RPMs that you are about to install. For additional helpful information about ClusterWare, visit the Penguin Computing Support Portal at https://www.penguinsolutions.com/computing/support/technical-support/.

Release Notes:

• Version 12.4.0 introduces the concept of "providers", i.e. external sources for hardware resources. The initial provider uses virsh to allow ClusterWare administrators to connect to an existing hypervisor running libvirt and allocate virtual machines in a streamlined way using the new scyld-clusterctl providers command. A cluster administrator can use these virtual machines as ephemeral test instances while developing images or deploy a persistent image to the virtual disks to make a login node.

  Although this first virsh provider can only be bound to individual hypervisors, another provider currently under development will be able to allocate machines on KubeVirt compatible Kubernetes deployments. Other providers could also be implement an interface between ClusterWare and other virtualization platforms or provisioning systems.

• This version also includes a reworked graphical user interface (GUI) and many bug fixes and performance improvements.

• Starting with version 12.4.0, the product has been rebranded from Scyld ClusterWare to ICE ClusterWare in the GUI and documentation.

See Changelog for a full history of ClusterWare releases, and Known Issues And Workarounds for a summary of notable known current issues.