MVMUA Meeting 135

Metropolitan VM Users Association 135

Tuesday

October 21st, 2008

Information Builders Corporate Headquarters
27th Floor - 2 Penn Plaza
7th Ave, and 32nd St.
New York City, New York
(Right above Penn Station) Note: You have to follow the security guidelines for Information Builders.

9:00 AM	Continental Breakfast - Provided by Information Builders
9:30 AM	Meeting Opening - Bill Munson - Brown Brothers Harriman & CO.
9:45 AM	Jeff Savit - SUN - OpenSolaris on z a User Experience OpenSolaris is an open source operating system and the basis of Sun's Solaris operating environment. OpenSolaris already runs on SPARC, Intel and AMD, and with this port also runs on System z. This session describes experiences with SNA's port of OpenSolaris to z, and compares to other OpenSolaris implementations. Jeff's presentation 3,626K You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader here.
10:45 AM	Coffee Break
11:00 AM	Neale Ferguson - Sine Nomine - Open Solaris What was involved in getting Solaris running on System z? What does it take to make a new operating system available on System z? This presentation explores this. Come hear about the adventures in coding involved in bringing another popular OS to the System z platform. Neal's presentation 334K You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader here.
12:00 AM	LUNCH Break Lunch will be provided by MVMUA
1:00 PM	Reed Mullen - IBM - z/VM Platform Update: Introducing z/VM 5.4 Advancing the Art of Server Virtualization This presentation will highlight the new functions available with z/VM V5.4, IBM's advanced server virtualization solution for IBM System z. z/VM V5.4, generally available since September 12, 2008, offers enhanced virtualization capabilities which include: dynamic memory upgrade, flexible specialty engine configuration support, and virtual server scalability enhancements. Find out how z/VM V5.4 can help clients further leverage their System z infrastructure for improved business results. Reed's presentation 1,394K You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader here.
2:00 PM	Coffee Break
2:15 PM	David Kreuter - VM Resources - Experiences Using z/VM VSwitch This presentation shows how to define, use, configure and manage a z/VM VSWITCH. Examples are shown using z/VM 5.2, VM TCPIP stacks, and SLES8 and SLES9 Linux virtual machines. Failover and recovery strategies are covered. David's presentation 448K You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader here.
3:15 PM	Coffee Break
3:30 PM	Xenia Tkatschow - IBM - VMRM-CMM VMRM-CMM and CMMA are two different approaches to enhancing the management of memory in a z/VM system by the exchange of information between one or more Linux guests and CP. Performance improvements were observed when VMRM-CMM, CMMA, or the combination of VMRM-CMM and CMMA were enabled on the system. This presentation will cover the CMM performance results for a study completed by the z/VM Performance team. Xenia's presentation 366K You can download a viewer for Microsoft PowerPoint here
4:30 PM	Questions and Answers and the IBM give away's.
5:00 PM	Thank you very much, and thanks to Information Builders

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