IBM z Systems z13 (2964)

IBM z Systems z13 (2964)
Network Server
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

26 Mar 2019
147753

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 2 for SUSE® SLES 12

Product Description
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 on IBM® z Systems z13™

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	zSeries Platform
Mother Board Revision:	N/A
BIOS/uEFI:	N/A
CPU:	IBM z13 CPU (2964-704 N96)
RAM:	4 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	zSeries
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM SCSI/FCP , SCSI
Hard Disk Drive:	4 IBM SCSI/FCP Disk Storage Device , SCSI IBM FICON DASD Storage Device , SCSI
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.2.0-15.5

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: separate RAID 0.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to "crashkernel=212M,high crashkernel=162M,low" using YaST.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 12 guest. One of the Intel X540 ML2 10GbaseT adapters were used in this testing.
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 https://download.suse.com/ (VMDP-WIN-2.3.exe).

Adapters and Drivers


IBM SCSI/FCP
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: zfcp.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 216144


2 IBM OSA-Express5
	Driver Type:	Driver Name: qeth.ko
	Driver Date: 31-May-2018	Driver Size: 231824

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:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Banxuegang Industrial Park Buji Longgang
Shenzhen 518129
CHINA

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IBM z Systems z13 (2964) - Yes Bulletin 147753 | SUSE