IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4

IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4
Network Server
Lenovo

13 Sep 2022
151774

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 15 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 15

Other Products:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

Product Description
IBM® LinuxONE Emperor 4 LA1 (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

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 installed on UEFI firmware with Secure Boot enabled and 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 25GbE RoCE Express3 SR
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: mlx5_core.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 02-Feb-2022	Driver Size: 370440
	Checksum: f18f7c7e645552767e7aa373cc8de1a1
	Driver Version: 5.0-0

IBM OSA-Express7S 25 GbE SR 1.2
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: qeth.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 02-Feb-2022	Driver Size: 51612
	Checksum: 1a262840c06dcfbfe61dca677174f3e1

IBM FICON Express32S SX
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: zfcp.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 02-Feb-2022	Driver Size: 47848
	Checksum: e7c712428ba00147f061efc6564b2a5e

IBM SCSI/FCP
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: zfcp.ko.xz
	Driver Date: 02-Feb-2022	Driver Size: 47848
	Checksum: e7c712428ba00147f061efc6564b2a5e

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 LinuxONE Emperor 4 - Yes Bulletin 151774 | SUSE