Showing posts with label zSystems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zSystems. Show all posts
July 18, 2018
February 22, 2017
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 2 (SLES 12 SP2) released
On November 8th 2016 eleven months after the last service pack SUSE has released the latest updated to their flag ship server distribution. SUSE also has a blog post with some more details.
The kernel level for 12.2 is kernel-4.4.21-69.1. This is a jump in the kernel version from the old 3.12 based kernel. It's the same major kernel level that's being used by Canonical for Ubuntu 16.04. And with that kernel a lot of new functionality is delivered. SUSE and IBM worked hard to ensure that for applications it behaves the same.
What's new (details see documentation and release notes):
- The release notes states that SUSE now fully supports MariaDB. They have version 10.0.27 inlcuded
- Networking:
- For OSA the specification of a portname is no longer needed
- Hipersockets can now be bridged to Erhernet
- Layer2 offloads are enabled
- The 10 GbE RoCE card now also supports the DAPL/OFED stack on
- Encryption and security updates
- Glibc has now the first set of SIMD exploitations for z13
- Toolchain module updates
- Full KVM host support - so you can now run SLES12 as a Hypervisor on System z an Linux boxes
- ....
- Complete SLES 12 documentation
- SLES 12.2 release notes (s390x version)
- z Systems / s390x specific information
- release notes for High Availability Extensions (z Systems / s390x version)
- release notes for SDK (z Systems / s390x version)
- SUSE tuning guide updated to SP2
- Whitepaper on SUSE's module concept
- IBM documentation on developerworks
- Docker support statement
September 8, 2016
June 25, 2016
Fedora 24 for IBM z Systems and Linux ONE released
The new Fedora 24 for z Systems / s390x / LinuxONE was released 6/21/2016 together with the Intel version. Thanks to the Fedora team for closing the time gap between the architectures! The kernel level is kernel-4.5.5-300.
As usual the download is available from the Fedoraproject site and the respective mirrors and known issues are covered in the wiki.
April 21, 2016
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS available for LinuxONE and z Systems
Today Canonical announced the availability of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS including full support for z Systems and LinuxONE. Welcome to the platform!
Besides bringing tons of packages there is a fundamental change in pricing. It's no longer IFL based but rather based on a drawer. See the Ubuntu blog entry below.
Link collection to useful information:
- IBM tested platform site updated with Ubuntu 16.04 (supported on zEC12 and z13 architectures)
- Ubuntu Server Certifications for
- zEC12 & zBC12: LPAR, z/VM guest, KVM guest
- z13 & z13s: LPAR, LPAR & DPM, z/VM guest, KVM guest
- IBM Ubuntu marketing web site with shiny videos
- IBM sponsored GeekGuide "LinuxONE: the Ubuntu Monster"
- IBM documentation for Ubuntu 16.04
- Posting on the ubuntu-announce mailing list
- Ubuntu blog entry "Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for IBM LinuxONE and IBM z Systems is now available!" including the new pricing scheme
- Ubuntu 16.04 release notes
- LinuxONE and z Systems known issues
- Ubuntu 16.04 download site
- Ubuntu 16.04 alternative download
- Ubuntu s390x wiki - the starting point
(updated 6/5/2016)
December 29, 2015
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 1 (SLES 12 SP1) released
On December 22nd just in time for Christmas SUSE has released the latest updated to their flag ship server distribution.
The kernel level for 12.1 is kernel-3.12.49-11.1. As one of the top features this distribution is the first one, which allows full exploitation of the z13. And this distribution is so far the only one that's supported by IBM's version of KVM as well as Docker. SUSE has published a nice summary of the the z specific news.
And of course it has many bug fixes. So after the installation be sure to run an update to install the latest fixes from the maintweb.
Here is my usual summary of links to more information:
- Complete SLES 12 documentation
- SLES 12.1 release notes (s390x version)
- z Systems / s390x specific information
- release notes for High Availability Extensions (z Systems / s390x version)
- release notes for SDK (z Systems / s390x version)
- SUSE tuning guide updated to SP1
- Whitepaper on SUSE's module concept
- IBM documentation on developerworks
- KVM support statement
- Docker support statement
- the oldest ones are in a package called compat, that you can install with zypper directly. It has libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so and libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
- the libstdc++33 is part of the Legacy Module that SUSE provides. Add it to your repositories with yast2 repositories and then you can install. It contains the libstc++.so.5
