LinuxONE III LT2

LinuxONE III LT2
Network Server
IBM

31 Aug 2020
149686

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems 15 Service Pack 1 for SUSE® SLES 15

Product Description
LinuxONE III LT2

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

SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 guest. One of the Intel Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ adapters was used in this testing.
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through a KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two USB ports. As noted in the Tested Configuration above, the system also has one internal USB port.
Install: System installed using PXE network install; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Disk configuration: RAID 0. Kdump (SLE15): the crash kernel reserved memory parameters were increased from the default to crashkernel=283M,high crashkernel=172M,low using YaST.

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

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