8:00-8:45 Registration
8:45-9:00 Annual Business Meeting
9:00-10:00 "A SAN is Born - An Installation
Experience"
Charles T. McGavin Jr., EMC Corporation
SANs (Storage Area Networks) offer modern datacenters
unprecedented flexibility. However, the incompleteness of some
standards and the complexities of the technology pose potential
implementation problems for the unwary. This paper will review
the benefits and problems associated with SANs and then describe
an actual SAN implementation in a large UNIX/NT datacenter and
discuss the lessons learned.
10:00-10:15 Break
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o Kenneth R. De Vilbiss, FORTEL Inc.
o Benny McCoy, StorageTek
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by Mar. 23, 2000 even if unable to attend Spring '01 Forum.
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10:15-11:15 "Storage Networks - Status, Trends, and Futures"
Randy Kerns, Evaluator Group Inc.
Storage Networks have received a great deal of publicity
and are being deployed by an increasing number of companies. Storage
networking is the general term used to encompass accessing storage
across a network, which includes Storage Area Networks, and Network
Attached Storage. With the dramatic increases in the amount of
storage being deployed, many solutions are being brought to market.
In this discussion, the status of what is happening
with storage networking will be examined and some of the reality
vs. hype exposed. One fundamental element necessary for understanding
the status and the future is to understand the market segmentation
of where different products are actually being deployed. Contrary
to many vendor claims, one size does not fit all.
The industry trends up to this time will be brought
up and from that, some predictions about the future in storage
networking will be shared.
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:15 15 Vendor Presentation, Computer Associates
An Overview of CA Performance Solutions
Computer Associates (CA) is the leading provider
of capacity planning and performance solutions for the IT enterprise.
Whether your needs are for historical analysis or real-time monitoring,
mainframe or distributed platforms, networks, datatabases, Web
management, or storage, CA has a solution to help you.
RMCMG will sponsor a skiing trip on Saturday, March
24. Lift tickets can be purchased at the forum on Friday March
23, at a discounted rate. Adult lift tickets will run about $35.00.
We are still looking for the best deal.
Barry and Judith Merrill, of MXG fame, will be unavailable
to participate in CMSki this year. We would like to thank them
for their past participation.
John Warner has been attending
the RMCMG Forums since 1998. He also attended his first national
CMG this year. He is currently serving as Secretary for the STK
golf league a position he has held for six years. He is also on
the board for his local swim and tennis club. John has been doing
performance analysis at STK for the last two years and has 19
years in the computer industry.
Dr. Tim R. Norton is a
consultant with his own company, Simalytic Solutions, and a co-founder
and the Chief Scientist of developNET Corporation, providing web
based capacity planning services for web applications. Dr. Norton
also teaches Computer Science courses at Colorado Technical University.
His research is focused on hybrid modeling techniques for client/server
systems. He has worked with a variety of computer systems and
has almost 30 years MVS, PC and Distributed Systems experience,
including applications design, support, and systems programming.
He provided Technology Planning for MCI WorldCom for four years
and has been doing capacity planning and modeling for over 15
years at a variety of companies, including Covia/United Airlines,
ARCO Oil and Gas, Colorado Interstate Gas, and Texas Instruments.
He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science and a Doctor of
Computer Science Degree. He is a member of the Association for
Computing Machinery, the Society for Computer Simulation, the
IEEE Computer Society, and the Computer Measurement Group. He
is the Subject Area Chair for Modeling Track for the National
CMG 2001 Conference and he is on the Academic Advisory Board for
Computer Science at Colorado Technical University.
Ken DeVilbiss has been
working in the performance and capacity planning arena for the
last 15 years. He is now a Capacity Management Specialist working
for the Defense Information Systems Agency on a contract with
Fortel Inc. Ken has been attending the International CMG conference
for the last six years and RMCMG member for the last three years.
He is currently serving on the Volunteer Coordination Committee
for the 2001 CMG conference in Anaheim. "I know that having
the local meetings gives many capacity planners a chance to participate
in a "mini-conference" when traveling to International
meeting can not happen. The opportunity to communicate with others
in the local area and experts in many different disciplines will
aid them and their companies in the problem solving and planning
for their IT assets."
Benny McCoy has over 15
years experience in data processing. His duties have included,
but not limited to, being a coder, DBA, Systems Programmer, Capacity
Planner, performance tester, hardware tester, software tester,
and after the lobotomy a manager. He has been involved with CMG
(both national and regional) since 1990. At national he has done
everything from session chair to subject area chair. In Rocky
Mountain CMG he has been program chair, director, and chairman.
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 "InfiniBand Architecture: Overview and Usage - Part 1"
John Baudrexl ("Bo"), TRL/EAL Advanced Systems Lab, Intel Corporation
The server I/O world will soon be have different
capabilities than it has in the past, with the introduction of
a high speed serial I/O fabric technology known as InfiniBand*
(IBA) Architecture. Supported by specifications developed by the
InfiniBand* Trade Association (IBTA), with over 200 key server
component and system suppliers, this initiative aims to replace
PCI in servers. This discussion covers an overview of motivations
for IBA* architecture, a brief review of IBA* Architecture basics,
a view on industry's likely transition from PCI busses to IBA*
technology, perspectives on its performance potential, and some
interesting system usage models to consider for its deployment."
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:45 "InfiniBand Architecture: Overview and Usage - Part 2"
John Baudrexl ("Bo"), TRL/EAL Advanced Systems Lab,
Intel Corporation "An
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:00 "Internet Performance and Capacity Management - A New"
Clayton Ching, Director of eAssurance Certification - Peakstone Corporation
What is performance and capacity management when
dealing with the internet? How do you monitor, measure and manage
it? Even as businesses engage in new technologies and methods,
the same issues/questions remain - How can I continue to support
my Service Level Objectives? How do I support the mission critical
applications? How many users can my web site support?
This presentation will discuss a method for managing
internet performance and capacity. The speaker will show how to
apply techniques to our own (well known) time honored concepts
of delivering service levels based on business objectives.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:15 "CICS Performance Management 2001"
Ivan L. Gelb, President Gelb Information Systems Corp.
Performance management controls of CICS for MVS/ESA
and CICS Transaction Server (TS) for OS/390 regions can greatly
affect the effective use of computer resources, and, as a result,
the effective capacity of a CICS complex is impacted. This presentation
will focus on the parameters and OS/390 environmental factors
which affect a CICS region's total demand for processor capacity,
real storage, virtual storage and disk input/output service. Workload
Manager (WLM) Release 10 changes that impact CICS will be included.
The potential risks and benefits associated with the selection
of actual and default values will be identified.
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:15 Vendor Presentation, Computer Associates
Introducing Performance NeugentsÔ for OS/390
Neugents from Computer Associates have been making
their mark in the distributed world since their introduction a
couple of years back. They have shown their value in use with
Unicenter TNG in helping to predict potential performance problems
early enough that corrective action could be taken to prevent
the errors. Soon, they will make their mark on the Enterprise
Server platform as well.
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 "zSeries 900: The 390's Last Hurrah or New Beginning "
Dr. Doug McKinnon, BMC Software
This presentation will discuss the status of the
OS390 market and the future enhancements we will likely see over
the next 3 years. He will draw on his experience and background
developing OS390 strategies for BMC Software, and share his vision
of what is in store for the OS390 world over the next few years.
At press time, these speakers are confirmed. RMCMG reserves the right to substitute without notice in case of cancellation beyond our control.
Biographies of the Speakers
Ivan L. Gelb has been
involved with on-line systems and applications as part of his
extensive hands-on experience with mainframe and client/server
environments of all sizes. His technical and management background
includes (a) determination of hardware and software requirements
for high-performance and high-availability systems; (b) effectiveness
evaluations and optimization of computer systems performance;
(c) data base and data communications systems design, implementation,
and performance improvements; and (d) capacity requirements forecasting
and development of proprietary analysis techniques and software
packages.
Mr. Gelb is a frequently invited speaker at software
conferences and Computer Measurement Group meetings. His seminars
on performance management and capacity planning have been attended
by representatives from hundreds of organizations in the United
States and internationally. He is an invited member of the IBM
Gold Consultants Program for OS/390, DB2, TP and message processing.
Douglas MacKinnon is past
President of the Southern California chapter of CMG. In addition,
he has published several papers at the National CMG. For the past
eight years he has been working with BMC Software in Houston and
is currently their Director of OS390 Performance Strategy. Prior
to this, he worked seven years at Candle Corporation as one of
their first Product Managers and subsequently as Director of Marketing.
He has additional experience in Performance Management and Capacity
Planning at Rockwell International and Hughes Aircraft.
Clayton Ching has been
working in the systems performance & capacity management business
for the past 20 years. He has been an active member of CMG for
the past fifteen years and past Chairman and President of the
Northern California CMG. He's authored and presented original
papers on MVS, DFSMS, and MQSeries at the national conference
and at regional groups both national and internationally. Mr.
Ching's experience largely comes from his experience while working
16 years for Candle Coorporation, where he engaged in systems
engineering and product management for many of Candle's popular
monitoring and management solutions. Clayton has recently joined
Peakstone Corporation where he is the Director of Certification
Services.
Ted McGavin is currently
a Consulting Systems Engineer for EMC. Ted has been in the industry
for 24 years, spending his first 18 years as a customer of information
technology at Fireman's Fund and Levi Strauss in California, then
3 years at HDS and 3 years at EMC. Over that period of time, Ted
started out as an end-user, became a self-taught application programmer,
lead application programmer, systems programmer, systems administrator,
performance analyst and capacity planner.
Randy Kerns is a partner at The Evaluator Group and is responsible for Storage Area Network evaluations and education.
He has over twenty-seven years in the computer industry
involved in the development of storage products. His background
includes a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University
of Missouri at Rolla and a master's degree in engineering computer
science from the University of Colorado. His engineering career
includes such companies as Fujitsu, IBM, Storage Technology, and
the Array Technology subsidiary of Tandem Computers. Product development
that Randy has been involved in includes both disk and tape subsystems.
He was one of the original members of the RAID Advisory Board
and has been involved in the development of various RAID storage
systems. Most recently, Randy was Director of Engineering for
Enterprise Disk at Storage Technology Corporation. He has made
numerous presentations at conferences and is the author of several
industry articles.
John Baudrexel ("Bo")
holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Missouri
at Rolla (UMR). Prior to joining Intel, John spent fourteen years
as a software engineer in the storage industry. He worked at small
startups (Ibis Systems, Amperif, Intellistor) and a large corporation
(Fujitsu), in various roles developing embedded firmware, application
software, channel programs, and simulation tools for high-end
intelligent storage products, including RAID and tape controllers.
John concluded this era by forming and operating a successful
software engineering firm for eighteen months, then cruising Australia's
eastern coast by sailboat.
Since joining Intel in 1996, he has focused primarily
on server I/O, studying PCI and high-speed serial device and driver
architecture and performance to better understand their impacts
on chipset and processor performance. As part of the Server Architecture
Lab, John was involved in Intel's push to move I/O out of the
server since its inception (even before the initiative was called
Next Generation I/O), and led the team who developed and delivered
the industry's first public prototype demonstrations of NGIO technology.
As part of the Fabric Components Division, he led the teams who
developed and delivered the industry's first public demonstrations
of InfiniBand technology. John has spent considerable time considering
how to best integrate new I/O technology into existing system
architectures. He has maintained frequent contact with the server
I/O community and has spoken at several venues on I/O-related
topics.
John is currently an architect and the manager of
Intel's Advanced Systems Lab software team. In this role he is
focused on high-density server clusters that support very large
memory spaces, InfiniBand interconnects, and freedom from legacy
devices, and their applicability to emerging e-commerce applications
running in Internet data center environments.