HMC is offered as a Tower (FC 0062) and a Rack Mount (FC 0063) feature. Rack Mount HMC  can be placed in a customer-supplied 19-inch rack and occupies 1U rack space. z15 includes  Driver level 41 and HMC application Version 2.15.0. IBM z15 also introduces a new management feature, the IBM Hardware Management  Appliance (FC 0100). With this feature, the need for a stand-alone HMC is eliminated, both  Hardware Management Console appliance and Support Element Appliance running  virtualized on the Support Element hardware servers integrated with the z15 CPC. For more information, see Chapter 10, “Hardware Management Console and Support  Element” on page 409. The IBM z15 server is supported by a large set of software products and programs, including  independent software vendor (ISV) applications. (This section lists only the supported  operating systems.) Use of various features might require the latest releases. For more  information, see Chapter 7, “Oper ating system support” on page 255. The following operating systems with required maintenance applied are supported for z15  servers: For more information about supported Linux on Z distribution levels, see the Tested platforms  for Linux page of the IBM Z website. For more information about features and functions that are supported on z14 by operating  system, see Chapter 7, “Operating system support” on page 255. 1.6 Operating systems 1.6.1 Supported operating systems 16 Customers should monitor for new distribution releases supported. 32  IBM z15 (8561) Technical Guide GLYPH<SM590000> z/OS: – Version 2 Release 4 – Version 2 Release 3  – Version 2 Release 2 – Version 2 Release 1 (compati bility support only, with extended support agreement) GLYPH<SM590000> z/VM: – Version 7 Release 1 – Version 6 Release 4 GLYPH<SM590000> z/VSE: Version 6 Release 2  GLYPH<SM590000> z/TPF Version 1 Release 1 GLYPH<SM590000> Linux on IBM Z distributions$^{16}$: – SUSE SLES 15 SP1 with service, SUSE SL ES 12 SP4 with service, and SUSE SLES  11 SP4 with service. – Red Hat RHEL 8.0 with service, Red Hat  RHEL 7.7 with service, and Red Hat RHEL  6.10 with service. – Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS with service and Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS with service. GLYPH<SM590000> KVM: Supported by Linux on IBM Z distributions