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We have once again brought in 2 nationally recognized capacity and performance experts:
We are also fortunate to have 2 local members from the St. Louis CMG that have agreed to share their experience:
Meeting Details
Date: Tuesday February 12th
Time: 9am to 3:30 pm
Cost: $50 by Feb5th; $60 at the door
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Agenda
8:45 – 9:00 Registration 9:00 – 9:05 Welcome and Introductions 9:05 – 10:00 Show & Tell #1 – Chris Althen overview of Met Life’s Enterprise Performance and Capacity Optimization Team’s activities 10:00 – 10:15 Break 10:15 – 11:45
Dr. Boris Zibitsker
- Application of Performance Prediction to 11:45 – 12:45 Lunch 12:45 – 1:45
Show & Tell #2 -
1:45 – 2:00 Break 2:00 – 3:30
Jonathan McCormick of
VMWare: Virtual
Infrastructure Capacity, Performance, and Monitoring Considerations 3:30 Closing Optional - Social Gathering at Chili’s (Kennerly & Tesson Ferry across from St. Anthony’s)
Session Overviews Application
of Performance Prediction to by
Dr. Boris Zibitsker It can be very difficult to apply performance prediction modeling to enterprise databases. Most modeling approaches focus on server utilization metrics and therefore only model changes to these metrics and/or the underlying hardware. In this presentation we will review how performance modeling can be used to also evaluate database design optimizations and application performance enhancements. In particular, we will discuss how performance prediction models can be used to evaluate alternatives and justify changes in database design, applications, and IT infrastructure. We will review several examples of multi-tier,
distributed environments based on Oracle 10g RAC, DB2 UDB ESE and
Teradata These case studies
will illustrate the value of performance prediction during all phases of
a project, both pre- and post-implementation, for forecasting
workload/database growth, for capacity planning, and for
server/application/data consolidation.
Infrastructure optimization through the use of
virtualization
– by Jonathan McCormick of VMWare VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3) transforms individual VMware ESX Servers into shared, distributed virtual infrastructure. New features of VI3 serve to make virtualized computing more appealing from a service management, operational, availability, and load balancing perspective. The VI3 solution set includes VMFS, a Distributed File System; VMware VMotion; VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS); VMware High Availability (HA); and VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB). These features facilitate the ability to add capacity on-demand with little or no disruption to existing applications as well as minimize the impact of infrastructure hardware failures thus increasing application availability. During this session, we will review VMware systems architecture as it relates to performance and capacity planning. We will address server consolidation considerations for implementing a virtualized computing environment. The use of VirtualCenter for monitoring real time utilization as well as long term performance trending and capacity planning will be presented. We will also highlight the memory management in VMware’s hypervisor and discuss the options for using VMware DRS for load balancing and seamlessly moving workloads from one server in a VI3 cluster to another. Show and
Tell Two “Show and Tell” sessions will be presented by Capacity Planners from our area:
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Trend Lines in Excel – but no forecasting
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Linear Regression
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Linear Regression of the Log
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Linear Regression of the Log of the Difference
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Rolling Averages
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Weighted Rolling Averages
National Speaker Biographies Jonathan
McCormick is a Senior Systems Engineer for VMware, Inc. Over
the past 3 ˝ years he has delivered hundreds of presentations on
infrastructure optimization through the use of virtualization.
Prior to VMware, Jonathan spent 5 years as a systems engineer for
StorageTek designing SAN and archival storage solutions. His 17
year career in information technology began in 1990 as a computer
programmer for the United States Air Force. Dr. Boris Zibitsker -
Dr. Boris Zibitsker is a Chairman and CTO of
BEZ Systems. BEZ Systems specialized in proactive performance
management. Dr. Zibitsker and his colleagues developed predictive
performance management software used by many corporations to plan,
manage and control performance of the applications during all phases of
the application life cycle. He is author of many papers and as an expert
performance prediction, performance management and database performance
optimization, Dr. Zibitsker consults and teaches seminars worldwide. |
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