The second quarter meeting of the Chicago Area VM (and Linux)
Enthusiasts will be held on Thursday, April 22, 2010.
ROAD CONSTRUCTION UPDATE:
The road construction projects in the Hewitt Associates area still
have not been completed. However, the only currently active
construction in the area is at Milwaukee Avenue (Route 21) and Half
Day Road (Route 22). It is not causing major delays.
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Meeting Location:
This quarter's meeting will be held at the Hewitt Associates 'East
Campus' located at 100 Half Day Road, in Lincolnshire, IL. We will
meet in Conference Room 100-M3, in Building 100, just off the cafeteria.
If you have not attended a meeting at this location before, or you
are not familiar with the area,
<http://cavmen.home.comcast.net/hewittb99.html>Click here for
additional information on directions, maps, lodging and dining.
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Attendance:
We would like to request a count of expected attendees by the Monday
before the meeting, so that we may plan appropriately for arranging
the facilities, and for refreshments and lunch, should one of the
vendors wish to provide them. If you are planning to attend, PLEASE
send an E-Mail by that date to
<mailto:cav...@comcast.net>cav...@comcast.net with a subject line of
"Meeting Attendance".
This is meant to be a facilities planning aid and should not be
interpreted as a registration requirement. If you suddenly become
available at the last minute, please feel free to attend even if you
have not responded.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.
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Meeting Agenda:
9:00 AM Eliminating the Barriers: Bringing z/VM Administration to the
21st Century
The skills needed to administer a z/VM system are typically acquired
over a period of many years. Bringing new people in to the fold can
be challenging when all they think about when they hear 'mainframe'
is green screen. Experienced admins from other platforms might be
turned away by having to learn yet another set of commands and a
terminal interface. Other virtualization platforms compete for mind
share via sexy GUIs.
This presentation will slide-show/demo (depending upon network
availability) a project that provides cloud enablement for z/VM and
will allow the administration of a z/VM system from a web browser.
The speaker will be Rich Smrcina of Velocity Software.
10:30 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM Managing Linux on z/VM
Managing Linux on the mainframe requires capacity planning,
performance analysis, chargeback and operational support. This
presentation discusses technologies that can be used to accomplish it
all effectively.
The speaker will be Rich Smrcina of Velocity Software.
12:30 PM Lunch Break
1:45 PM Administration and Vendor Announcements
2:00 PM Linux on z Update
The speaker will present a brief update of recent developments in the
Linux under z/VM area.
The speaker will be Paul Augustyniak of the IBM Corporation.
2:30 PM SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP1 - Ready to Roll Out
Find out just what is cooking in the upcoming release of SLES 11 SP1.
We'll spend some focused time on what is new, updated, and supported.
Of course, the special emphasis will be on System z.
The speaker will be Don Vosburg of Novell, Inc.
3:30 PM Coffee Break and Prize Drawing
3:45 PM Run your ASP.NET applications on System z: A Closer
look at how Mono on SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 can free you to fly
We will look at the architecture of running Mono - the Linux
implementation of .NET. Then we will discuss some real-life
situations where you might consider deploying these application
servers on SLES 11 for System z, and hear about what others have done.
The speaker will be Don Vosburg of Novell, Inc.
4:45 PM Free-for-All
Members will attempt to answer any reasonable VM or hardware related
questions. If you are having a problem and want to find out if others
are experiencing it, or you are installing new hardware or software
and want to find out what types of problems others have experienced,
here is the place to find out.
Members are encouraged to bring ideas for future presentations and
speakers to this meeting.
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Please check the WEB site for Map and Directions:
http://cavmen.home.comcast.net
In addition, you will also find extensive information available on
dining and lodging in the Hewitt Associates area.
Additional information about the CAVMEN group, and other VM related
items of interest are available on our web site.
There is no charge for admission to meetings.
Meeting attendance is open to anyone, and advance registration is not required.
I look forward to seeing all of you at the meeting.
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Mark M. Suchecki
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CAVMEN Coordinator
Voice: (847) 518-0058
FAX: (847) 518-0083
E-Mail: cav...@comcast.net
Web: http://cavmen.home.comcast.net
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