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/
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