IBM® z14™, z14 (3906)

IBM® z14™, z14 (3906)
Network Server
IBM

24 Aug 2017
145817

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
IBM® z14™ (3906)

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	zSeries Platform
Mother Board Revision:	N/A
BIOS/uEFI:	N/A
CPU:	IBM IBM z14 CPU (3906)
RAM:	4 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	zSeries
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM Ficon Express16 , FibreChannel IBM SCSI/FCP , SCSI
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM FICON DASD Storage Device , FibreChannel IBM SCSI/FCP Disk Storage Device , SCSI IBM ECKD DASD Storage Device , FibreChannel
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 7.6.0-53.1

Config Notes

Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=221M,high crashkernel=182M,low" using YaST.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.4.exe).
Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 1-node scalable partition with 4 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: single RAID 0 device. 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 X540 ML2 Dual Port 10GbaseT adapters was used in this testing.

Referenced Bulletins
146629

Adapters and Drivers


IBM Ficon Express16
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: zfcp.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 200799


IBM SCSI/FCP
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: zfcp.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 200799


IBM OSA-Express 6s (10 GB)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: qeth.ko
	Driver Date: 24-Jun-2015	Driver Size: 205743

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:

IBM
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IBM® z14™, z14 (3906) - Yes Bulletin 145817 | SUSE