Friends of VM,
The Next meeting of MVMUA will be Wednesday July 25, 2007
We will be on the Campus of Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY
Breakfast and Lunch will be provided by Marist College
Martha has gone to a lot of trouble to set this meeting up
and we have some very fine IBM speakers for this meeting.
The meeting is being held on Wednesday by request and it
is also being held North of Manhattan by request too.
I invite you to attend and invite any other VM shop that has
not made it down to Manhattan because of distance.
thanx
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.
Please go to the MVMUA web site for Directions to Marist College
(it is on the JULY meeting page)
--
Bill Munson
VM System Programmer
Office of Information Technology
State of New Jersey
(609) 984-4065
President MVMUA
http://www.marist.edu/~mvmua
