IBM z15 T02

IBM z15 T02
Network Server
FSAS Technologies Inc.

04 Aug 2020
149512

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 for AMD64 & Intel64

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Micro 6.2

Product Description
IBM® z15™, z15 (8562)

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	System z Platform
Mother Board Revision:	N/A
BIOS/uEFI:	N/A
CPU:	16 IBM z15 CPU (8562)
RAM:	16 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 8.3.0-27.1

Config Notes

VMware Cloud 1.3 was used to perform this system testing.
System certification testing was performed with a SLES 12 SP3 64-bit virtual machine configured with up to 128 CPUs and 6128 GB of memory.
VMware guest OS installation information can be found at: http://partnerweb.vmware.com/GOSIG/SLE_12.html
VMware recommends using the Open VM Tools redistributed by operating system vendors. For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073803 at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803.
VMware recommends using the paravirtual drivers contributed upstream and redistributed by operating system vendors . For additional information, see knowledge base article 2073804 at https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073804.
The VMware Memory Ballooning driver included in SLES 12 SP3 is auto loaded to improve the virtual machine memory performance.

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:

FSAS Technologies Inc.
13-2 Frontier Musashikosugi, Nakamaruko, Nakahara-ku
Kawasaki City 211-0012
JAPAN
Voice: 044-754-2453
Website: https://www.fsastech.com/

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IBM z15 T02 - Yes Bulletin 149512 | SUSE