SCMG Meeting Raleigh, NC October 29, 2003

Address:
Club BlackTie
3201 New Bern Ave
Raleigh, NC 27610

Agenda:

Abstracts:

Performance and Capacity Management of Virtual Environments
Chris Molloy, IBM
The growing popularity of having virtual environments running on distributed servers has rekindled an interest in performance and capacity techniques of virtual machines. This presentation will discuss many of the characteristics of managing the performance of virtual environments, and will use a current virtualization pilot to relate many of the issues facing performance and capacity management personnel as they implement virtualization on these distributed machines.

Unix Discoveries by a Mainframe Dinosaur
Tom Lynch
In 15+ years of capacity/performance work on mainframes, vm/vse/mvs, I had a lot of preconceived notions about systems monitoring. Now that I have over five years of UNIX 'experience' in this same endevor, I have a new view of life. The mainframe OS's are rich with monitoring and measurement tools integrated into the 'kernel, Not so in UNIX. We've also had a lot of experience with 'users' that allow us to 'reasonably predict' with little real input. UNIX is a different world. This presentation will attempt to share some of my experiences, how I resolved my dilemmas, and put forward some questions I still have.

Discovering Performance Antipatterns using Rational Quantify
Clair Cates, SAS Institute, Inc.
We’ve all heard about performance antipatterns, yet how do you find these problems in your system? I have used Rational Quantify for over 7 years and have learned many tips and tricks to help uncover many common antipatterns. This presentation will describe the wealth of data generated by Quantify and how to use this data to uncover common software performance problems such as:

• Excessive Memory Allocation
• The Ramp
• Unnecessary Processing
• One Lane Bridge
• How Many Times Do I have to tell you?
• Unbalanced Processing and
• More is Less

Vendor Presentation – Performance Based Allocation by DTS Software
Duane Reaugh, DTS Software
DTS Software's Allocation Control Center (ACC) can direct your critical data set allocations based on delivered response and location of other data sets. The speaker will discuss the benefits of data set separation for performance and availability. The advantages of directing data sets to devices that are providing measured response times consistent with the service level agreements that an installation may have in place.

Speakers:

Chris Molloy
Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM, where he works in their Global Services division. With over 20 years of IT experience, Chris focuses on improving system management solutions for his customers. He is a frequent speaker at CMG, and holds a patent for some of his work in performance management and capacity planning.

Claire Cates
Principal Systems Developer - SAS Institute, Inc. Claire has been with SAS Institute for almost 20 years. During this time she has been involved in the development of many areas of the SAS System. For the past 7 years she has worked primarily on software performance and resource usage. Using 3rd party and in-house tools, Claire has been able to locate inefficient algorithms and recommend changes in order to improve overall system performance.
BS Computer Science – NCSU
MS Computer Science - University of South Carolina

Tom Lynch
Tom has 37 years experience in the IT industry, 25 years with IBM, development, support and sales, approximately 30 years in performance/capacity with, os/dos(yes the real one)/vm/svs/mvs/xa/zos/unix. last 12 years in technical support areas.

Duane Reaugh
Dauane has been in mainframe Data Processing for over 30 years and Manager of Technical Support for DTS Software for almost 10 years. He has a Bachelor's degree in Physics and a Masters in Computer Science from William and Mary. DTS Software writes and markets Storage Management products for IBM z/OS operating system.

Sponsors:

	DTS Software DTS Software specializes in enterprise storage management in products developed for the IBM z/OS and OS/390, Hitachi VOS3, and Fujitsu MSP operating systems.
	Advanced Software Products Group ASPG, Inc. provides software, support and services in the areas of: Storage Administration, Capacity Planning, Data Security, Disaster Recovery, System Productivity, and CICS Productivity.