MVMUA 131, July 25th, 2007
Metropolitan VM Users Association 131
Wednesday
July 25, 2007
Marist College
3399 North Road
Library Room 302
Poughkeepsie, New York
9:30 AM Continental Breakfast
10:15 AM Meeting Opening - Bill Munson
10:30 AM Kevin Yash - IBM - OMEGAMON XE
Managing the growing Linux on z environment requires insight into resource consumption at the z/VM
level and at the Linux guest level. IBM Tivoli's OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux product provides
an integrated way to monitor (and manage) the performance characteristics of this complex environment.
This presentation will discuss the OMEGAMON XE offering - functionally, as an integrated solution,
with user scenarios, and within the larger system management infrastructure.
11:30 Am Break
11:45 AM Mike MacIsaac - IBM - Virtualization CookBook
Two updated books are available with titles: "z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook
for <SLES 10, RHEL 5>". The goal of these books is to allow you to install and configure z/VM, install and
configure Linux and be cloning Linux in two or three working days. This presentation will describe the books
and a new simple Web application for monitoring your Linux servers and VM system. A live demonstration will
be given as well as a discussion of future plans for the books.
12:45 AM Lunch will be provided by Marist College
1:45 PM Bruce Wells - IBM - RACF
With the growing popularity of Linux on zSeries, the z/VM operating system has been enjoying a resurgence as
a popular and extremely efficient hosting environment for multiple Linux server instances. RACF has a version
for z/VM which has protected this environment for many years, and is undergoing some significant enhancements
in the upcoming z/VM 5.3 release. This session provides an overview of the RACF for z/VM product and a discussion
of the new features. Along the way, we will compare and contrast RACF on z/VM with RACF on z/OS, if the audience
finds that to be helpful.
2:45 PM Break
3:00 PM Melissa Howland - IBM - Linux on System z Update
"What's New for Linux on System z" - Overview of new features recently developed for Linux on System z,
with a focus on those items developed by the Endicott kernel development team. Bring your "Linux on
System z" wishlist. There will be time for discussion about what other enhancements you'd like to see.
4:00 PM Break
4:15 PM Ken Davis - IBM - VM ID (pubs) panel
The z/VM V5.3 product library includes a number of improvements, such as extensive upgrades to the RACF and
RSCS publications (RSCS is now a feature of z/VM), reorganization of the Performance Toolkit documentation,
standardization of abend code and message documentation, and support for doing BookManager-style cross-library
text searches in the PDF files.
The z/VM V5.3 library contains 102 publications, 86 of which are z/VM-branded publications maintained by VM
ID. That's a lot of information. But do these publications provide all of the information you need? Is there
a topic that you feel is missing or needs further development? Is it easy or difficult to find the particular
piece of information you are looking for? To help us improve the z/VM documentation, ID would like to develop
working relationships with z/VM clients.
5:00 PM thank you very much.