IBM zEnterprise 196 z196 (2817)

IBM zEnterprise 196 z196 (2817)
Network Server
Lenovo

13 Nov 2014
142372

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

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

Product Description
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 on IBM® zEnterprise™ System.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	System z Platform
Mother Board Revision:	N/A
BIOS/uEFI:	N/A
CPU:	2 IBM S390 64bit CPU
RAM:	4 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	System z
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM Ficon Express8 , FibreChannel IBM Ficon Express4 , FibreChannel IBM Escon , FibreChannel IBM SCSI/FCP , SCSI
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM FICON DASD Storage Device , FibreChannel IBM ECKD DASD Storage Device , FibreChannel IBM SCSI/FCP Disk Storage Device , SCSI
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.3.0-113.1

Config Notes

VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP4 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.2.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.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration. Hard drive configuration: separate RAID 0. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 kernel update 10549 (x86-64) is required and was installed during certification testing.
SUSE Driver Kit: The lenovo_x6_and_m5-sle11sp3-x86_64-1.0.iso driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: https://drivers.suse.com/lenovo/Lenovo-System-x-X6-M5/sle-11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/install-readme.html.

Adapters and Drivers


IBM Ficon Express8
IBM Ficon Express4
IBM Escon
IBM SCSI/FCP
IBM OSA-Express2
IBM OSA-Express3

The term SUSE YES Certified applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. For more information on hardware exchange policies, please access the following document and view the Hardware Component Exchange Guide.

https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

Lenovo
For support regarding this specific configuration, please visit:
support.lenovo.com

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IBM zEnterprise 196 z196 (2817) - Yes Bulletin 142372 | SUSE