CMG Canada Seminar: Tuesday November 18th 1997
TIME: 8:30a.m. - 4:30p.m.
LOCATION: The Corporate Seminar Centre *** changed venue ***
130 Adelaide St. West, 35th Floor, Toronto, Ontario (Tel: 416-366-4228)
The Centre is located on the top floor of 130 Adelaide St.
W. on the North East corner of York and Adelaide. From the lobby
of the 34th floor take either the spiral staircase or shuttle
elevator to the Penthouse floor. The Centre is within a block
of the St. Andrew subway stop and a short walk up York Street
from the West end of Union Station.
ATTIRE: Business attire or Business casual (hard soled
shoes, slacks, collared shirt)
If this program is not of interest to you,
please pass it on to the appropriate group within your organization
... Thanks for your prompt attention.
Agenda:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM President's Welcome - Anthony G.
Mungal
9:15 AM Annual General Meeting
Election of Directors, Treasurer's Report, Membership
Report and other business of CMG Canada. This is a special invitation
to members of CMG Canada to come along and participate in this
important business activity.
9:30 AM Oracle Performance Tuning for UNIX and Windows NT
Terry Lewis - TMHR Consulting Inc.
What is performance tuning? Who
should do it, and when should it be done? The tuning of an Oracle
Production system is an art, not a science. The art is in knowing
where you will get the biggest "bang for your buck"
without having to "RAID" the bank. We will look at what
components contribute to bad performance, how to tune them and
how to take advantage of new tuning features and functions of
Oracle 7.3x and 8.0x. We will also look at some of the differences
between running Oracle on UNIX versus Windows NT.
Terry has been around the Toronto computing industry for more than 20 years. His background has been tuning networks, but for the past 5 or six years he has spent most of his time tuning Relational databases such as Oracle and SQLBase for Peoplesoft users and other large corporate clients. Terry has also been very involved in running a number of users groups including the short lived SNA Performance Committee at S.H.A.R.E. many years ago. Until recently, Terry was the co-founder and chairperson of the Toronto
Gupta/Centura Users Group. Currently, he is a member
of the Toronto Oracle Users Group executive committee and the
co-founder and chairperson of the Rational Users Group of Ontario.
Lately, Terry has been working with an SAP, Oracle and Lotus Notes
business partner in Germany who has moved part of it's operation
to Canada. He is working with the Canadian subsidiary to expand
and grow their Oracle and Informix server, Lotus Notes and Application
Development side of their business.
10:30 AM Coffee
10:45 AM Performance and Capacity Management in Complex Multi-tier Client/Server Environments (SAP, PeopleSoft, Baan)
Glynn B. Giacone - BGS Systems
Multi-tier client/server application support and simplify business applications in areas of finance, production, distribution, sales, and human resources. Multi-tier architectures typify the strategies of mission critical applications implemented for UNIX and Windows NT, where workstations communicate with application servers which in turn communicate with database servers such as Oracle, Informix, and Sybase. This paper is a client/server case study of what instrumentation is available from UNIX, what instrumentation is
required from a client/server application such as
SAP R/3, and how system and subsystem metrics can be used in an
analytic model for sizing and capacity planning.
Glynn has
been employed at BGS for 16 years, and is currently the Director
of SAP Products and Services. Responsible for product line strategies
to meet SAP performance and capacity management needs in open
system and mainframe environments. Glynn is a technical author
and frequent speaker relating experiences and techniques to help
size and manage mission critical applications for SAP R/3, Oracle,
Sybase, Informix, DB2, CICS, and IMS.
12:00 NOON Lunch (make your own arrangements)
1:30 PM Panel Discussion - Shaping Technologies
Panelists: Anthony Mungal, George Warren, Terry Lewis,
Glynn B. Giacone & 2 other panelists being
finalized
Come, hear and participate in
a lively 90 minute discussion on a number of timely and engaging
issues which continue to shape the course of Data Processing in
many organizations today. A sampling of the topics for discussion
are as follows:
The Panelists and a few to be added prior to the
Seminar day are widely regarded in their field and hence come
highly recommended to share experiences and advice with you. A
Separate biography including credentials for each one was not
undertaken, but will be highlighted prior to the session.
3:00 PM Coffee
3:15 PM A Comparison of Remote Copy Approaches: SRDF and PPRC Performance Testing
Anthony G. Mungal & Rene Daoust - EMC Corporation
As the proliferation of applications supporting critical
business functions continue to increase, the need for continuous
availability of data and associated subsystems continue to heighten.
In fact, the whole "global" nature of many businesses
today demand that lines of business function seamlessly across
multiple time zones spanning difficult geographic areas. This
places an increasing challenge on the personnel, resources and
configurations required to support these business functions, hence,
an understanding of the performance and availability characteristics
of the I/O Subsystems capable of supporting such functions is
essential.
This paper details the results of an extensive suite
of testing in a customer environment of EMC's Symmetrix Remote
Data Facility (SRDF) and IBM's Peer to Peer Remote Copy (PPRC).
An initial review of the various modes of Operations and the full
assessment of the functionality of each of the two offerings is
made. As expected, to the extent that variations exist within
and amongst customer environments, the results of this testing
will require specific interpretation. The true benefit of this
type of testing is the rather comprehensive and quantitative amount
of information which becomes immediately applicable to the many
situations facing performance analysts, capacity planners, storage
management and other technical management personnel.
This Paper will also be presented at CMG'97
International Conference in Orlando this December.
Anthony Mungal
is currently President of CMG Canada, and works with EMC in a
Consulting role. Prior to joining EMC over four years ago, he
spent about seven years with Amdahl Canada Limited in the capacity
of Regional Systems Engineer. His employment background prior
to that spans several years as a Consulting Systems Engineer,
Manager, MVS Senior Systems Programmer, Business Systems Analyst,
and Application Development and Programming. He is a graduate
of the University of Toronto with honours in both Mathematics
and Computer Science. He is a founding director of CMG Canada
and is presently serving as the President. He has authored many
papers on Capacity Planning, CPU and I/O performance, Disaster
Recovery, High Availability, and Storage Management which were
presented to various forums including SHARE, miscellaneous User
Forums, and local and international CMG conferences.
Rene Daoust joined
EMC Corporation as a Corporate Systems Engineer about three and
a half years ago in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. His areas of specialty
is primarily in architectures and performance. Prior to that,
he worked at the Norton Company from 1980 to 1993 in Systems Programming
as a Systems Software Specialist, primarily focusing on Operating
Systems, having the responsibility of installing and debugging
them. He also did a lot of Performance Tuning, Capacity Planning
and many other miscellaneous roles. The last 3 years at the Norton
Company was spent as a Supervisor of Systems Programming. His
ten years of experience prior to the Norton Company spans various
roles as Systems Programmer, Manager of Operations and Computer
Operator.
4:30 PM Adjourn