LinuxONE III LT2

LinuxONE III LT2
Network Server
IEIT SYSTEMS Co., Ltd.

31 Aug 2020
149687

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 5 for SUSE® SLES 15

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

Product Description
LinuxONE III LT2

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	zSeries Platform
Mother Board Revision:	NA
BIOS/uEFI:	NA
CPU:	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 ECKD DASD Storage Device , FibreChannel IBM SCSI/FCP Disk Storage Device , SCSI
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.3.0-27.1

Config Notes

Maintenance update: SLES 11 SP3 Xen maintenance update 8588 and kernel update 8827 (x86-64) are required and were installed during certification testing. After the maintenance update the EFI boot loader in the F1 setup Boot Manager was manually re-configured.
Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with following additional parameters: dom0_mem=10G dom0_max_vcpus=10.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
VM Driver Pack: All FV guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES 11 SP3 drivers are included with the OS. The Windows 2012 R2 drivers are available from http://download.novell.com (VMDP-WIN-2.1.exe).
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter in the elilo.conf file was changed from 128 to 256 (crashkernel=512M-:256M) for kdump to function correctly.

Referenced Bulletins
141338

Adapters and Drivers


IBM Ficon Express16
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: zfcp.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 220312
	Checksum: 8c24b05079bf50f67081b5625e29b386

IBM SCSI/FCP
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: zfcp.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 220312
	Checksum: 8c24b05079bf50f67081b5625e29b386

IBM OSA-Express 7S (10 GB)
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: qeth.ko
	Driver Date: 31-Oct-2018	Driver Size: 231472
	Checksum: 20472ec6c988e4f037477ae3b1ca5b13

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:

IEIT SYSTEMS Co., Ltd.
East side of Floor 9, No. 801, Caoshanling South Road, High-tech Zone, Jinan City, Shandong Province, PRC
Jinan 250101
CHINA
Website: https://www.ieisystem.com

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LinuxONE III LT2 - Yes Bulletin 149687 | SUSE