Friends of VM,
The next Metropolitan VM Users Association meeting will be held on
TUESDAY April 24, 2007. at Information Builders in New York City.
Please visit our web site for information on signing up to attend.
http://www.marist.edu/~mvmua
Metropolitan VM Users Association 130
TUESDAY
April 24, 2007
Information Builders Corporate Headquarters
27th 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 Reed Mullen -IBM- z/VM Platform Update: Introducing z/VM V5.3
Catch the latest breaking news on z/VM product enhancements.
This session will provide you a high-level overview of the
new z/VM Version 5.3 product announcement. z/VM V5.3 offers
new, leading-edge virtualization capabilities and a pricing
model that will help enterprises more easily exploit the on
demand capabilities of IBM System z virtualization technology.
10:15 Am Coffee Break
10:30 AM Shari Killion -MAINSTAR- Managing Multiple LINUX's on z/VM
Read her article in the March/April issue of IBM Systems Magazine !
When you run Linux as a guest of z/VM, the power and resources
of the mainframe are utilized as needed, so you dont have to
purchase and maintain separate dedicated hardware for each Linux
server. Instead, hundreds of thousands of instances can run on just
one z/VM host. Unfortunately, repeatedly creating, configuring and
updating Linux instances manually can be tedious and time
consuming, and all too often, those who are asked to perform these
tasks are Linux staff with limited z/VM experience or z/VM staff
with limited Linux experience.
With automated instance management, a non-Linux or non-z/VM
expert can easily create, configure, and maintain many virtual
Linux instances under z/VM. You can also:
- Reduce management costs by eliminating physical footprints
- Eliminate errors with accurate configuration of Linux
instances
- Centrally view and manage all Linux instances
- Provide efficient and automated resource utilization
11:30 AM LUNCH Break
Lunch will be provided by MVMUA
1:00 PM Bill Bitner IBM z/VM Performance Update
While z/VM has an outstanding reputation for scaling and
performance management, performance enhancements continue to be
added to the system. This presentation will review some of the
improvements from z/VM 5.2.0, some items added via the service
stream since GA, and a sneak peek at the kind of improvements
planned for the future release, z/VM 5.3.0. These topics will
include memory management, PAV support, and additional synergy
with Linux guests. A brief overview will also be given of the
relationship between Performance Toolkit for VM and OMEGAMON XE.
2:00 PM Coffee Break
2:15 PM Eric Schuler-Dalverny IBI - WEBFocus
3:15 PM Coffee Break
3:30 PM Will Roden - IBM - Using and exploiting Secure Socket Layer
SSL improvements for z/VM Version 5.3.
Several interesting and useful additions were made to the SSL
server in 5.3. This presentation will discuss the enhancements
and put them into the context of the existing SSL server.
We will also discuss how SMTP, FTP, and Telnet use the new
facility.
4:30 PM Questions and Answers and the IBM give away's.
5:00 PM thank you very much.
--
Bill Munson
IT Specialist
Office of Information Technology
State of New Jersey
(609) 984-4065
President MVMUA
http://www.marist.edu/~mvmua
