Minneapolis / St. Paul Computer Measurement Group

Spring 2011 Conference

“Storage Subsystem Performance, Tuning and Analysis”

Date: Thursday, April 21, 2011

Time: 8:15 AM – 4:00 PM

Location:

Nexus Information Systems

6103 Blue Circle Drive

Minnetonka, MN 55343-9109

Map - http://www.nexusmn.com/contact/directions-a-map.html

The meeting is open to anyone who would like to attend. Cost: n/c

Agenda:

8:15 - 8:30 Welcome / Business Meeting

Tom Becchetti, Minneapolis-St. Paul CMG

8:30 - 9:45 “Storage Subsystem Performance Tuning and Analysis 101”

Tom Becchetti – Senior Technical Consultant BRS EMC

This will be a foundational presentation for the rest of the day’s events. This presentation will give the basics components and concepts that are common in all storage and computing platforms.

9:45 – 10:00 BREAK – Instrumental http://www.instrumental.com/

Midwest Virtualization Consultants - http://virtualizationconsultants.org/

10:00 - 11:00 Pending – Henry Newman

Mr. Henry Newman has over 29 years of advanced systems architecture and performance analysis expertise in solving the most complex challenges for customers in government, scientific research, and industry around the world. This comprehensive experience includes hardware and software requirements analysis and design; file system and HSM design and optimization; system performance analysis and optimization; storage system architecting; high-performance networking; capacity planning; and hierarchical storage management with the focus on high performance computing and complex UNIX, Linux and Windows environments.

Prior to joining Instrumental, Mr. Newman worked at Cray Research in a variety of capacities for over 11 years. His last position was International Technical Support responsible for performance and tuning issues. Mr. Newman has been with Instrumental, which he helped found, since 1992 and is the CEO/CTO for the company.

11:00 - 11:45 “State of the SSD, their Use and Mis-use”

Roger Kelly – Xiotech

“Roger W. Kelley, Principal Architect, Xiotech

Roger Kelley is Principle Architect for Xiotech Corporation. A 22-year industry veteran and a 11-year veteran of Xiotech. He has extensive experience in architecture, design, and implementation of storage area networks and replication technologies. He is responsible for assisting customers in strategic storage planning and disaster avoidance and preparedness. He also has responsibilities in assisting the driving of company direction as it relates to technology offerings and positioning, as well as evangelizing new technologies. He has presented at many storage and networking–related seminars throughout the western United States.

12:00 - 1:00 Derek Clark Fusion-IO – What is it and what will its impact be? (Lunch Provided by Fusion-IO)

Bio Pending

1:00 - 1:45 Storage

Jim Foster, Senior Technical Consultant - EMC

Bio Pending,

1:45 – 2:00 Break Sponsored by XIOtech

2:00 - 2:45  Fibre Channel - the Past, the Present, and the Future with focus on Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and standardization of 16GFC – Horst L. Truestedt

Fibre Channel (FC) and FC SANs provide:

· High bandwidth (100 to 800MB/s today)   

· Long distances (to 50km per hop). Several implementations are designed to support 160km distances (100 miles)

· Large connectivity - millions of devices can exist on the same network

· SANs facilitate new technologies (server clustering, storage clustering, LAN-free tape backup, remote mirroring, etc.)

Fibre Channel has a clear roadmap to provide:

· Higher performance (16Gb/s)

· MRD already defined for 32Gb/s)

· Additional capabilities (Security, Tiered Storage, Intelligence)

· Backward compatibility

· 2x Data Rates auto-negotiate to highest rate

· FCoE is transparent to FC ports

Fibre Channel over Ethernet

· expected to lower cost of 10Gb/s Ethernet

· allows one Adapter and Fabric switch for both IP and Storage 

·  provides seamless transition from Host to existing FC SAN

· Data Center Convergence

Horst L Truestedt joined the IBM Corporation in Rochester, MN in 1968  after working for six years at the 3M Co in St. Paul, MN. He has worked in several divisions of IBM (including assignments to Germany and Japan) in the design and development of Optical Character Recognition equipment; as manager of Diagnostics Engineering on System/36 and System/38; and, on storage product attachments for S/36, S/38, 4300, 9370, and AS/400.

Before retiring from IBM in 1997, Truestedt had been involved with DASD interfaces and attachment architecture. He was the principal voting member for IBM at ANSI T11 - Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI), High Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI), Fibre Channel (FC), and Enterprise System Connectivity (SBCON); represented IBM SSD on the Fibre Channel Association (FCA); represented IBM as co-founder of the Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID) Advisory Board; represented ANSI T11 at the International Standards Organization (ISO); and, consulted for large IBM systems world-wide.

2:45 – 3:00 Break

3:00 – 4:00 Tuning: The Art of Moving The Current Bottleneck Outside Of One’s Own Area Of Responsibility

Doug Babcock – Evolving Solutions

Bio Pending

Local Officers

To add your name to our email distribution, contact TBecchetti@gmail.com or MSPCMG@gmail.com or follow us on twitter @MSPCMG.

Chair: Tom Becchetti

EMC

Phone: (651)400-1297

E-Mail: TBecchetti@gmail.com mailto:TBecchetti@gmail.com or mspcmg@gmail.com

Treasurer: Bob Kunzer

Deluxe Corporation

Phone: (651) 787-2027

E-Mail: bob.kunzer@deluxe.com

Advisor: Dez Kristof

Acxiom

Phone: (651)787-5242

E-Mail: dez.kristof@acxiom.com mailto:dez.kristof@acxiom.com

Director: Barry Pieper - CMG member number 6868 (since 1983)

Phone: (651) 662-9354

E-Mail: Barry_R_Pieper@bluecrossmn.com

Director: Doug Morris

EMC

Phone: (612)812-6489

E-Mail: Doug.Morris@datadomain.com

Director: Norm Owens

Unisys

Phone: (952)905-0395

E-Mail: email@normanowens.com

Mark Weber

UHG

Phone: (612) 991-5404

E-Mail: markweber@means.net

Advisor: Bill Feeney

Hennepin County

Phone: (612)348-6230

E-Mail: bill.feeney@co.hennepin.mn.us mailto:bill.feeney@co.hennepin.mn.us

Advisor: Judy Jones

Wells Fargo

Phone: (612)418-6883

E-Mail: judyjones9@gmail.com

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http://regions.cmg.org/regions/mspcmg/index.html