According to a presentation I saw at SHARE the problems include storage 
overlays. I don't think you even want try it. 

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> On Jun 29, 2016, at 4:20 PM, Grzegorz Powiedziuk <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> From what Alan and Mark said, I understand that not working ssh might have
> been just a small result of bigger problem - data corruption. So
> practically anything else might go wrong too.
> Gregory
> 
> 2016-06-29 14:01 GMT-04:00 Duerbusch, Tom <[email protected]>:
> 
>> I didn't want to hijack the original thread so....
>> 
>> The conclusion on the original thread was that you need to be on a
>> supported release of Suse when you go to a new z13.  This involved SSH and
>> I assume crypto hardware.
>> 
>> We have been planing to go to a z13 this year.
>> I've said that many times before as we are on a z890, and have planed to go
>> to a z9, z10, z114, z12 and now z13.
>> 
>> We have SLES 9, SLES 10 and SLES 11 running.
>> (After WAVV in 2011, I did manage to sunset our SLES 7 and SLES 8 guests)
>> 
>> I'm ok with not being able to use new features/functions that are on a
>> z13/zVM 6, on the unsupported software, but I'm now concerned about what I
>> might loose, or crash with the new hardware.
>> 
>> SSH isn't much of a problem, as there are so few people that actually log
>> on to Linux or use SSH with Linux applications.
>> 
>> So, the question is:
>> Is there any other problems that others have come across, when migrating
>> unsupported SLES systems to a z13?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Tom Duerbusch
>> THD Consulting
>> 
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