IBM zEnterprise 196 z196 (2817)

IBM zEnterprise 196 z196 (2817)
Network Server
IBM

13 Nov 2014
142372

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for System z 12

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

Install: System installed using the internal DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard disk configuration: RAID 1. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=12G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to the SLES 12 FV guest. One of the Intel Ethernet Server I350-T2 adapters was used in this testing.
Kdump (SLE12SP2): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=153M,high crashkernel=112M,low using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).

Adapters and Drivers


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

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

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

IBM
For support regarding this configuration, please visit
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/linuxone/

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