SCMG Meeting Raleigh
May 16, 2005

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Thomas Walker
VMWare
Tommy Walker has worked in Information Technology for the past twelve years. After graduating from The Citadel with a degree in Computer Science he went on to work for several consulting organizations. The Computer Group and IKON Office Solutions gave him his start and experience with Operating Systems,Networking, Security and Storage. He along with two other partners founded eGroup, a consulting organization based in Charleston, SC. After three years he was approached by Citrix Systems and went to work for them as a Systems Engineer for North and South Carolina. He held this position for three years before joining VMware in early 2004 where he is currently employed. In his career Tommy Walker has helped companies both large and small implement and deploy business ready technology. As an engineer for VMware he is an evangelist for Virtualization and the many benefits it brings to the Intel server world; Server Consolidation, Server Containment and Business Continuity to touch on a few.

Linwood Merritt
Bank of America
Lin started his data processing career in 1970 as a Simulation Analyst and has been a US CMG member since 1984. He served as a Subject Area Chair for CMG in 2003, Vice Chair of Southern CMG in 2004, and Assistant Program Chair for CMG in 2004. He is currently the Project Manager of the "Enterprise Wide Capacity and Performance" project of SHARE (since 1994), Regional Chair of Southern CMG, and Program Chair for CMG 2005.

Lin has published 16 CMG papers (plus one additional paper for UKCMG 2003) and presented at 27 SHARE conferences. He won the CMG97 Mullen award for the presentation "Performance Data from the Server to the Intranet: Getting the Data and Reporting It," and presented it at UKCMG in 1998. He is now working as a mainframe Capacity Planner at Bank of America in Richmond, Virginia.

Rick Ralston
Humana, Inc.
Rick Ralston has worked in Data processing for over 30 years. He's spent 26 of those years working in performance management and capacity planning, mostly on IBM mainframes. He's a contributor to the MXG-L listserv and an editor of CMG's web-zine Measure IT. Recently he has been involved with the IBM Sub-Capacity License Charge offering for z/OS.

Reed Mullen
IBM Corporation

Brian Wade
IBM Corporation

Abstracts:

Intel Virtualization Using VMWare
Thomas Walker, VMWare
VMware Virtualization Infrastructure enables server containment/consolidation strategies, cost effective test and development environments and highly available DR/BC plans. Walker will show how the four primary servers resources are virtualized and how this virtualization leads to these solutions.

A Finger in the Wind: Forecasting Techniques for Capacity Planning
Presenter: Linwood Merritt, Bank of America
Robust capacity planning entails the analysis of data to project future demand. This analysis can be as simple as a linear trend of historical demand data, and can be as complex as multivariate regression using business drivers combined with analysis of changing business functionality. This discussion explores the use of Excel and SAS to perform simple trend analyses of computer resources and produce capacity planning forecasts.
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zSeries, Sub-Capacity Workload License Charges, Soft-Caps, and WLM
Presenter: Rick Ralston
With the advent of zSeries processors and z/OS, IBM decided to offer a new software cost structure. The new pricing structure, Sub-Capacity Workload License Charges, attempts to reduce the cost of key IBM software in the z/OS environment. This paper discusses the author's experiences with Sub-Capacity License Charges, the tools available to help manage the LPARs running sub-capacity WLC, results, and benefits.
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