Meeting Agenda Change: A third afternoon session has been added. The session start times have changed. Please read carefully.
The third quarter meeting of the Chicago Area VM (and Linux) Enthusiasts will be held on Thursday, June 18, 2009. ---------- 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 the Lower Level Conference Room in Building 98. 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. ---------- 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:[email protected]>[email protected] 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. ---------- Final Meeting Agenda: 9:00 AM Best Fits for Linux on System z - How and Why This presentation will outline the architecture behind Linux running on System z, and show which applications are BEST run on System z Linux, and why they are best fits. The speaker will show which questions and approaches have worked and give real customer examples that validate this approach. We will also cover applications which work extremely well on System z Linux, and the reasons why, in a competitive situation, System z Linux could be the better choice for your workload. The speaker will be Paul Augustyniak of the IBM Corporation. 10:30 AM Coffee Break 10:45 AM An Update on how IBM is consolidating computers to double capacity - IBM Big Green ECM project In 2007, IBM announced that its Project Big Green would spur a global shift to Linux on the mainframe. Further, IBM claimed to "double computing capacity with no increase in our carbon output by 2010." IBM also announced that we would consolidate 3,900 of our own distributed servers to 33 System z computers in 3 years. Is it possible to achieve such massive consolidation? Here's an update on how it is being done. The speaker will be Paul Augustyniak of the IBM Corporation. 12:15 PM Administration and Vendor Announcements 12:30 PM Lunch Break 1:30 PM SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 - Evolutionary change How is it better? What has changed? Technical improvements in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 will be discussed and demonstrated, from a newer kernel to high-availability. Hear about virtualization, green-IT, and appliance strategies. Bring your questions, and a USB drive to get ISO files of the architecture of your choosing. The speaker will be Don Vosburg of Novell, Inc. 3:00 PM Coffee Break 3:05 PM Red Hat Update With the release of RHEL 5.4 and RHEL 6.0 around the corner, what can customers expect? Where is Red Hat taking Linux? The speaker will be Shawn Wells of Red Hat, Inc. 3:35 PM Coffee Break and Prize Drawing 3:50 PM Managing your RHEL VMs with Red Hat Network Satellite Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite is a tool which can provision, manage, update, and monitor your RHEL VMs running on System z -- with the added bonus of managing your distributed systems too. In this session we will talk through how RHN Satellite works, step through provisioning RHEL VMs on a System z, show how to deploy your own (custom) applications, give an overview of the internal communication subsystems, then proceed with a live demo. If network conditions are right, we will remote into Red Hat's z9 and detail out our internal configuration. The speaker will be Shawn Wells of Red Hat, Inc. 4:50 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. ---------- 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. _______________________________________________________________________ Mark M. Suchecki - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CAVMEN Coordinator Voice: (847) 518-0058 FAX: (847) 518-0083 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: http://cavmen.home.comcast.net - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
