IBM zEnterprise® BC12 zBC12™ (2828)

IBM zEnterprise® BC12 zBC12™ (2828)
Network Server
IBM

25 Jul 2013
139818

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 on IBM zEnterprise® BC12, (zBC12™)

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	zSeries Platform
Mother Board Revision:	NA
BIOS/uEFI:	NA
CPU:	IBM zSeries processor running 64 bit mode
RAM:	1 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	zSeries
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM Ficon Express4 , FibreChannel IBM Ficon Express8 , FibreChannel IBM SCSI/FCP , SCSI
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM SCSI/FCP Disk Storage Device , SCSI IBM FICON DASD Storage Device , FibreChannel IBM ECKD DASD Storage Device , FibreChannel
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.1.0-33.2

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing. After the maintenance update the EFI boot loader in the F1 setup Boot Manager was manually re-configured.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.

Referenced Bulletins
141338

Adapters and Drivers


IBM Ficon Express4
IBM Ficon Express8
IBM SCSI/FCP
IBM OSA-Express4
IBM OSA-Express3

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IBM zEnterprise® BC12 zBC12™ (2828) - Yes Bulletin 139818 | SUSE