MVMUA 126, January 23, 2006
Location/Directions:NYC
Metropolitan VM Users Association 126
January 23, 2006
Information Builders Corporate Headquarters
24th Floor - 2 Penn Plaza
7th Ave, and 32nd St.
New York City, New York
(Right above Penn Station)
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM Meeting Opening - Bill Munson
9:15 AM Mike MacIsaac - IBM - z/VM and Linux on zSeries:
From LPAR to Virtual Servers in Two Days
Brought back for an encore from our July 2005 meeting,
Extra time allotted for updated procedures and Demo.
There is a new Redbook available: 'z/VM and Linux on zSeries:
From LPAR to Virtual Servers in Two Days'. As the title suggests
a goal of the Redbook is to describe how to install and configure
z/VM, install and configure Linux and be cloning Linux in two
working days. Rexx EXECs and scripts are provided with the book.
In addition to installing z/VM 5.1 from DVD, the following topics
are discussed: the SYSTEM CONFIG file, configuring TCP/IP, allocating
paging volumes, defining a common ID for CMS files, creating a
highly available VSWITCH. While z/VM is being installed, the task
of setting up a PC Linux NFS server is addressed. Once you have
defined a Linux user ID, Linux is installed twice onto the same
virtual machine: one image to clone from and the other to do the
cloning. Both of these images are configured with the option of
using scripts for speed, or manually to better understand the
configuration. The supplied clone script is described in some
detail. Cloned images can then be configured into Web, LDAP, file
and print, development or other servers. Finally, backup and
restore issues are addressed.
11:30 AM LUNCH Break
Lunch will be provided by MVMUA and catered by Circa-NY
1:00 PM Mike Scoba - IBM - What's new with the MainFrame - System z9 109
2:00 PM Coffee Break
2:15 PM Connie Beuselinck - IBM - System z9 Connectivity Snapshots
This session is all about mainframe connectivity - for Coupling,
Security, SANs and LANs. Come hear about the newest mainframe -
System z9 109. We'll cover the I/O availability enhancements and
the changes in support of the I/O cage. We'll discuss what uses
I/O resources and the latest enhancements to the host bus
infrastructure - the STI (the path for data between memory and
I/O) as well as the new MBA fanout card. We'll decipher the
alphabet soup! We're 40 years old and counting, and continue to be
the right place for mission-critical applications for On Demand
Business. We'll cover the coupling options - ICs, ICBs, ISC-3,
the Crypto options - CPACF enhancements, the configurable Crypto
Express2 feature, what's new with FICON for SANs, and what is new
with OSA for LANs. This session is a "snapshot" of all of the
technologies that use I/O resources. I'll have my "magic bag".
3:15 PM Coffee Break
3:30 PM Tracy Dean - IBM - Archive Manager and Operations Manager for z/VM
With the continued growth of z/VM and Linux on zSeries, the
need for systems and storage management tools on z/VM grows as well.
Following our July 2005 presentation on tape management and backup and
restore services, this presentation will focus on archive functions and
operations management. You'll also get some insight into what might be
coming soon
4:30 PM Questions and Answers and the IBM give away's.
5:00 PM thank you very much.