One of the problems is parts of the proc filesystem populated by the hw can 
overlay memory since the hw response returns more data on a z13
Phil
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> On Jul 2, 2016, at 4:31 PM, Alan Ackerman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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