Friends,
A friendly reminder of the MVMUA meeting next week.
Metropolitan VM Users Association 134
WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY
July 16, 2008
Marist College
3399 North Road
Donnelly Hall - Room 237
Poughkeepsie, New York
9:00 AM Continental Breakfast ? provided by Marist College
9:30 AM Meeting Opening - Bill Munson - Brown Brothers Harriman
& CO.
9:45 AM Romney White ? IBM - New Features of the z/VM 5.3
Control Program
The latest releases of z/VM include many
enhancements to the z/VM
Control Program. These include additional
support for Linux guests,
virtual networks, and guest connectivity, as
well as technological
enhancements for IBM System z servers. This session will
describe the
newest features of the z/VM Control Program and how to use
them.
10:45 Am Coffee Break
11:00 AM Romney White ? IBM - z/VM Live Guest Migration
z/VM Live Guest Migration moves a running guest from one
z/VM system to
another with at most a brief interruption to its service.
From the
guest's perspective, nothing significant changes in its
environment.
This session describes z/VM's
approach to creating this capability,
explains the motivation for
developing it, and includes a technology
demonstration.
12:00 AM LUNCH Break
Lunch will be provided by MARIST College
1:00 PM Susan Baloga ? IBM - VMSES support, RSU and SDO delivery
Were you aware that the z/VM operating system could be delivered
electronically? We will look at the electronic deliverables for z/VM
including methods for requesting them and what to do with them once they
are received. We will also review the z/VM service philosophy and
automation in VMSES/E for service tasks. There is no need for concern
when you enter a restart record if you understand the data sources behind
the automation.
2:00 PM Coffee Break
2:15 PM Dr. Klaus Goebel ? IBM ? Klaus is the z/VSE Systems Manager
z/VSE Trends & Directions and Modernization Strategy
This session focuses on the recent announcements in and
around
z/VSE V4. It covers z/VSE status, content, future strategy,
interoperability, SOA solutions, as well as the benefits of
an
hybrid environment incorporating the best of z/VSE, z/VM,
and
Linux on System z. The presentation also reviews attractive
new
software pricing introduced exclusively for z/VSE V4 on IBM
System z9 and z10 server technology. It includes examples
of z9
EC and z9 BC customer success stories made possible by
IBM's
renewed emphasis on VM/VSE environments.
3:45 PM Questions and Answers and the IBM give away's.
4:00 PM thank you very much, and thanks to Marist College for
everything.
Bill Munson
Brown Brothers Harriman
VM System Programmer
201-418-7588
President MVMUA
http://www2.marist.edu/~mvmua/
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