IBM zEnterprise 196 z196 (2817)

IBM zEnterprise 196 z196 (2817)
Network Server
Fujitsu

18 Oct 2010
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SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 11

Product Description
SLES-9 SP4-s390x on an IBM® zEnterprise™ System.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	System z Platform
Mother Board Revision:	n/a
BIOS/uEFI:	n/a
CPU:	2 IBM System z processor running 64 bit mode
RAM:	2 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	System z
Host Bus Adapter:	IBM Ficon Express8 , FibreChannel IBM Ficon Express4 , FibreChannel IBM Escon , FibreChannel IBM SCSI/FCP , SCSI
Hard Disk Drive:	IBM FICON DASD Storage Device , SCSI IBM ECKD DASD Storage Device , FibreChannel IBM SCSI/FCP Disk Storage Device , SCSI
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

Tested as a 2-node scalable partition with 8 Compute Books. Hard disk configuration: RAID 0 and RAID 1.
VM Driver Pack: All 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), and the virtio drivers was used.
SUSE Driver Kit: The ibm_x6-sle11sp3-x86_64 driver kit is SUSE SolidDriver Program compliant. The driver kit was installed during the SLES install process as an initial bootable iso image. This driver must be downloaded and installed before the SLES install. To obtain the driver go to: http://drivers.suse.com/ibm/IBM-X6/sle11-sp3/install-readme.html.
Install: System installed using an external USB DVD drive; the OS was installed from DVD using the UEFI boot loader and elilo system configuration.
PCI Network Pass-Through: System was tested using PCI pass-through where two of the host network adapters were given to one SLES 11 SP3 i586 guest and one SLES 11 SP3 x86-64 guest. Two adapters (ports) from the Intel® I350-T4 ML2 Quad Port GbE Adapter was used during this testing.
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
141557

Adapters and Drivers


IBM Ficon Express8
IBM Ficon Express4
IBM Escon
IBM SCSI/FCP
IBM OSA-Express2
IBM OSA-Express3

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise 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:

Fujitsu
Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH
Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1
Paderborn 33106
GERMANY
Voice: +49 (0)5251 525 2537
Website: http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/standard_servers/index.html

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IBM zEnterprise 196 z196 (2817) - Yes Bulletin 133924 | SUSE