SCMG Meeting Richmond
October 20, 2005

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Rich Fronheiser
Rich Fronheiser is principal consultant for Metron-Athene, Inc. He has been a distributed capacity planner and performance analyst for the past decade, working full time in the utilities, transportation, and insurance industries. He has a BS in Mathematics from Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA, and will complete an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in May, 2006.

Walt Caprice
Walt Caprice has spent the last 33 years working in the computer industry. He spent his first 18 years working in Philadelphia for
Burroughs Corp. (Tech Rep.), Westinghouse in Lester (Systems Programmer), GTE in Mount Laurel (Systems Programmer) and IBM in Philadelphia (A branch office Large Systems SE and a Market Support Rep in the MVS Performance Group of the Area Systems Center). Walt has spent the last 15 years working at the IBM Washington Systems Center in Gaithersburg, MD. He has a worldwide reputation in the areas of z/OS and z/Series performance. Walt is a frequent presenter on performance topics at IBM as well as user conferences.

Abstracts:

Consolidation and Virtualization: More things in fewer places
Rich Fronheiser, Metron

The introduction of distributed systems brought about a huge growth in the number of systems to be managed. In addition, they were often geographically spread and managed outside the central IT department as user departments sought autonomy. The more the numbers of servers proliferated, the more it became obvious that effective management of the systems required a move back
to centralized control. Economies of scale were possible from consolidating onto a smaller number of larger systems, reducing the pockets of spare capacity that had been created throughout the organization. A move back to larger central systems and the advent of virtualization means that some of the older performance management techniques have become relevant again as decisions need to be made about buying more expensive and larger hardware systems that may be running multiple or virtual copies of operating systems. This paper talks about some of those techniques and talks about some of the challenges involved in consolidation.

An Introduction to the IBM Processor Capacity Reference for IBM System z9 and eServer zSeries (zPCR)
Walt Caprice, Senior Consulting I/T Specialist, IBM Corporation
The zPCR tool has been used for years by IBM’ers and Business Partners to accurately estimate the capacity difference between different IBM mainframes. This tool is scheduled to be made available to customers as a no charge tool in 4Q2005. This session will provide an overview of the tool itself as well as where to get further information on the tool once it is generally available.

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