IBM z16 A01

IBM z16 A01
Network Server
Lenovo

01 Jul 2022
151655

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 for AMD64 & Intel64 with KVM

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Micro 6.2

Product Description
IBM® z16™, z16 A01 (3931)

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	zSeries Platform
Mother Board Revision:	NA
BIOS/uEFI:	NA
CPU:	16 IBM z16 CPU (3931)
RAM:	16 GB
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM FICON Express32S SX IBM SCSI/FCP
Hard Disk Drive:	4 IBM SCSI/FCP Disk Storage Device 2 IBM ECKD DASD Storage Device
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 8.7.0-27.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration.
Persistent Memory: The Persistent Memory in the system was configured and verified "separately" in 100-percent AppDirect Mode, and then in 100-percent Memory Mode.
The x86_64 NVIDIA® CUDA® v13 Drivers were used during testing. The CUDA drivers were installed by the YES Certification test kit from https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/sles15/x86_64/
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 16.0 guest. One of the Lenovo ThinkSystem Broadcom 57416 10GBASE-T 2-port OCP Ethernet Adapters was used in this testing.

Adapters and Drivers


IBM 25GbE RoCE Express3 SR
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: mlx5_core.ko
	Driver Date: 02-Mar-2022	Driver Size: 1250112
	Checksum: b0ecb80519b2982550df541c8f964277
	Driver Version: 5.0-0

IBM OSA-Express7S 25 GbE SR 1.2
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: qeth.ko
	Driver Date: 02-Mar-2022	Driver Size: 234488
	Checksum: 029725854cd9af258a30492bf9ef5131

IBM FICON Express32S SX
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: zfcp.ko
	Driver Date: 02-Mar-2022	Driver Size: 223112
	Checksum: 9dc3457e869b808c8e872fc34ba793da

IBM SCSI/FCP
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: zfcp.ko
	Driver Date: 02-Mar-2022	Driver Size: 223112
	Checksum: 9dc3457e869b808c8e872fc34ba793da

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 z16 A01 - Yes Bulletin 151655 | SUSE