MVMUA Meeting 164

Metropolitan VM Users Association 164

Tuesday

January 12th, 2016

Information Builders Corporate Headquarters
27th Floor - 2 Penn Plaza
7th Ave, and 32nd St.
New York City, New York
(Right above Penn Station)

Directions to Information Builders

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

8:30 AM	Breakfast provided by Vicom Infinity, Inc.
9:00 AM	Eric Schuler-Dalverny - IBI - Meeting Opening
9:15 AM	Lee LaFrese & Curtis Ryan- IntelliMagic - IntelliMagic Vision Despite enterprise-class features in your high-end storage systems, performance problems may still reduce your application availability. Making these currently unpredictable incidents more predictable and avoidable is possible. But it requires a new approach. To outsmart unavailability, you have to automatically crawl through all the storage level performance data every day at a very granular level. This data needs to be enriched and constantly evaluated against detailed expert knowledge about the infrastructure. Statistical analysis (the primary method in other new Analytics solutions) is not enough. Instead, built in expert domain knowledge gained from over 20 years of storage performance modeling provides intelligent alerts and thresholds based on your specific workloads and storage hardware configuration details including vendor, model, ports, disk tier devices, and much more. Using this process, you can see for the first time the risk in your infrastructure to handle peak workloads and even how that risk is changing over time. This new visibility gives you warning before your online monitors can even detect any disruption to service levels. Join us for an introduction to how IntelliMagic Vision can change the way you protect continuous availability at your primary site. IntelliMagic Vision supports z/OS environments using RMF/SMF data and block storage for z/VM, z/Linux, AIX, Windows, etc. using data collected directly from the storage arrays and fibre channel switches. An overview of both the z/OS and block storage solutions will be covered as well as a few representative case studies. Lee and Curtis's presentation 3,647K Visit our viewers page to download a viewer.
10:45 AM	Coffee Break
11:00 AM	Rita Guidry - CA - VM:Secure for z/VM in a Single System Image. Overview of CA VM:Secure for z/VM in a Single System Image (SSI) Cluster A z/VM Single System Image (SSI) complex is a multisystem environment that enables you to manage separate z/VM systems as if they were a single computing resource. CA VM: Secure for z/VM maintains a consistent view of system administration definitions across all members of an SSI cluster. This session will provide an overview of how CA VM:Secure for z/VM is configured for SSI and how it synchronizes directory and security definitions to provide a consistent view across all members of the SSI cluster. Rita's presentation. 380K Visit our viewers page to download a viewer.
12:00 AM	LUNCH Break - Lunch provided by Vicom Infinity, Inc.
1:00 PM	Eric Farman - IBM -KVM KVM is becoming more and more popular on a lot of platforms, from embedded to enterprise scale systems. This growth continues with the announcement and introduction of KVM for IBM z Systems. One might think that there are enough introductions to KVM out there in the Internet already, but this will introduce KVM concepts in a fashion that will be familiar to experienced z/VM System Administrators And now that the foundation has been laid, Part 2 will enhance your knowledge by focusing on more use cases and examples beyond the introductory terminology and comparisons. Eric's presentation 693K Visit our viewers page to download a viewer.
2:00 PM	Coffee Break
2:15 PM	Reed Mullen - IBM - LINUXONE Linux Your Way, Linux Without Limits, Open Source Software, a new Linux distribution, a new Hypervisor, .... What is LinuxOne and what was announced at LinuxCon in August? This session will outline details of the LinuxOne announcement, the all Linux z Server offerings (Emperor and Rockhopper), and new Hypervisor and distribution options. We will also cover the "Open Mainframe Project" and Open Source enablement so you can start talking about how System z now supports Chef, Puppet, MariaDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL etc. with all your IT friends. Reed's presentation 6,148K Visit our viewers page to download a viewer.
3:15 PM	Coffee Break
3:30 PM	Mike MacIsaac - ADP- Maintaining z/VM conde on LINUX Organizations running z/VM and zLinux usually do "scripting" on both platforms. As the amount of code and configuration data grows, it is best to have a source code control system. If the desire is to keep the source code in just one place, a choice must be made whether to have it on z/VM or Linux. Because of the ubiquity of Linux, this presentation will recommend keeping your code on Linux. It will describe how to set up a subversion server for Linux code, and then extend it to z/VM using open source software that <will become/is> freely available Mike's presentation 637K Visit our viewers page to download a viewer.
4:30 PM	Questions / Comments
5:00 PM	Meeting adjourned and thanks to IBI and Vicom Infinity, Inc.

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