MVMUA Meeting 140

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MVMUA Meeting 140

Metropolitan VM Users Association 140

Tuesday

Tuesday

January 19th, 2010

Brown Brothers Harriman
525 Washington Blvd
12th Floor
Jersey City, NJ 07310

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Note: You have to follow the security guidelines for BBH.

8:30 AM	Continental Breakfast - Breakfast provided by Vicom Infinity, Inc.
9:30 AM	Bill Munson - Brown Brothers Harriman & CO. - Meeting Opening
9:45 AM	Marty Deitch - Vicom Infinity Inc. - Systems Specialist Best practices for sizing and TCO analysis for consolidation of distributed servers onto system z
10:45 AM	Coffee Break
11:00 AM	Eric Farman - IBM - lead CP I/O developer This presentation provides an introduction to some of the newer, and perhaps less publicized, I/O support items added to z/VM that would not receive an entire presentation on their own. Namely, information on the additions to z/VM 5.4 and 6.1 for FlashCopy/Space-Efficient and Extended Address Volumes will be discussed, along with some other nuggets that may interest users. Eric's presentation 349K Visit our viewers page to download a viewer.
12:00 AM	LUNCH Break - Lunch provided by Vicom Infinity, Inc.
1:00 PM	Sharon Chen - CSL International - CSL-WAVE CSL-WAVE, is very unique in the sense that it provides complete freedom to our users to operate z/VM-based virtual server farms while eliminating the need for the Linux sys-admins to develop a z/VM skill set. CSL-WAVE abstracts the z/VM resources and knowhow via its intuitive GUI and architecture to the point that CSL-WAVE users do not need to resort to the z/VM system programming dept for help for any of their day-to-day infrastructure management nor for even more advanced activities such as storage or network management. (All within the scope and permissions that are dictated by the site-level CSL-WAVE administration function (Usually the z/VM system programmer). The product handles all aspects of the virtual server farm: Virtual server management, provisioning, storage managed at the server and z/VM instance level, Network (GLANs and VSwitches), even script management across the virtual server farm.
2:00 PM	Coffee Break
2:15 PM	Aaron Graves - CITIgroup - z/VM and LINUX at CITI Aaron will discuss the zLinux implementations (past and present) at Citi including recent high-availability configurations and some upcoming projects.
3:15 PM	Coffee Break
3:30 PM	Jack Jones - IBM - Leveraging System z Security for Linux Our last speaker Jack Jones, Executive IT Specialist, CISSP, will review the security options within the Linux on System z environment. There will be both a technical and a business discussion on the value that z/VM and Linux for System z bring to the System z hardware. The integration of this IT environment with the z/OS operating system and its RACF security will also be presented in addition to solutions that are currently being used in production. Jack's presentation 4,462 Visit our viewers page to download a viewer.
4:30 PM	Questions or Comments
5:00 PM	Meeting adjourned and thanks to BBH and Vicom Infinity, Inc.