Friends The next meeting of the Metropolitan VM (and linux) Users Association will be:
Metropolitan VM Users Association 138 WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY July 1, 2009 Marist College 3399 North Road Donnelly Hall ? LINUX Lab Poughkeepsie, New York 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast ? provided by Marist College 9:30 AM Meeting Opening - Bill Munson - Brown Brothers Harriman & CO. 9:45 AM Mike MacIsaac ? IBM ? z/VM and LINUX Systems Management Mike will give an overview of z/VM and Linux systems management solutions considering the open source, vendor-supplied, and 'roll- your-own' approaches. He will classify products by the aspects of systems that they address such as network management, overall systems management, patch management, provisioning management, etc. Mike will also address a broad survey of z/VM and Linux systems management. For a more technical discussion, Mike will describe, and hopefully demo, a "read-only-root" Linux solution based on a paper written in 2007, that's in the process of being updated. 10:45 AM Coffee Break 11:00 AM David Boyes - SineNomine ? A simple VPN appliance for LINUX 12:00 AM LUNCH Break - provided by MARIST College 1:00 PM Jin VanStee ? IBM - Achieving High Availability on LINUX for System z with Linux - HA Release 2 Ever wonder how you can provide high availability to your Linux® on System z® guests without adding extra cost to your business? Are you just starting out with Linux on the Mainframe and exploring HA solutions for the platform? As Linux on System z becomes more prevalent and mainstream in the industry, the need for it to deliver higher levels of availability is also increasing. The High Availability Linux (also known as Linux-HA) project provides high availability functions for Linux through an open development community. This presentation is based on the IBM Redbook with the same name and discusses: - Linux-HA architecture and concepts - Linux-HA installation, setup and troubleshooting - Special considerations using Linux-HA on Linux for System z: including discussions on virtualization, cluster communication options, and fencing options on System z (i.e. snIPL) - Linux-HA usage scenarios: Apache, OCFS2 (Oracle Clustered File System), NFS, DNS, DB2 and DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device). - How customers today are using Linux-HA in their environment 2:00 PM Coffee Break 2:15 PM John Sawyer - SecureAgent - Secure Data Solution The Secure Data Solution® (SDS) is a patented and patent-pending virtual tape system and remote vault that allows an organization to efficiently store and retrieve compressed and encrypted virtual tape images. The SDS appears as tape units to attached computer systems; however, in actuality, the virtual tape images are compressed and encrypted files that permanently reside on the Secure Data Solution?s disk arrays. 3:15 PM Coffee Break 3:30 PM Chris Hastings ? IBM ? z/VM Information Center Web site. Information Centers, HTML-based Web sites, are the strategic direction for IBM product information. z/VM has provided its information center for two releases and will continue to improve this form of information delivery. Chris will explain the information center strategy and demonstrate how to navigate the z/VM Information Center. 4:30 PM Questions and Answers and the IBM giveaways 5:00 PM thank you very much, and thanks to Marist College for everything. let me know if you will attend - I hope to see you there Bill Munson Sr. z/VM Systems Programmer Brown Brothers Harriman & CO. 525 Washington Blvd. Jersey City, NJ 07310 201-418-7588 President MVMUA http://www2.marist.edu/~mvmua/ *************************** IMPORTANT NOTE***************************** The opinions expressed in this message and/or any attachments are those of the author and not necessarily those of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates ("BBH"). There is no guarantee that this message is either private or confidential, and it may have been altered by unauthorized sources without your or our knowledge. Nothing in the message is capable or intended to create any legally binding obligations on either party and it is not intended to provide legal advice. BBH accepts no responsibility for loss or damage from its use, including damage from virus. ************************************************************************