IBM® z15™, z15 (8561)

IBM® z15™, z15 (8561)
Network Server
Lenovo

19 Sep 2019
148679

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 with XEN Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 12

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	System z Platform
Mother Board Revision:	N/A
BIOS/uEFI:	N/A
CPU:	16 IBM z15 CPU (8561)
RAM:	16 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	zSeries
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM Ficon Express16 , FibreChannel IBM SCSI/FCP , SCSI
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM ECKD DASD Storage Device , FibreChannel IBM FICON DASD Storage Device , FibreChannel IBM SCSI/FCP Disk Storage Device , SCSI
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-27.1

Config Notes

Install: OS install was performed via network using the SUSE SolidDriver-compliant bootable driver kit at http://drivers.suse.com/hp/HP-Z440-Z640-Z840/sle-11-sp3-x86_64/1.0/install-readme.html. LAN and storage drivers are provided by the kit.
Graphics: Video driver used in testing was downloaded from http://www.hp.com/support/workstations. Video driver is not SolidDriver-compliant and requires installation of kernel source and development tools.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M).

Referenced Bulletins
142780

Adapters and Drivers


IBM Ficon Express16
	Driver Type:	Driver Name: zfcp.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 218400


IBM SCSI/FCP
	Driver Type:	Driver Name: zfcp.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 218400


2 IBM OSA-Express 7S (10 GB)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: qeth.ko
	Driver Date: 14-May-2019	Driver Size: 233336

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® z15™, z15 (8561) - Yes Bulletin 148679 | SUSE