Agenda

8:30 – 9:00                        Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 9:10                        Welcome and Introductions – Ben Geolat

9:10 – 10:10                      Show & Tell – Wayne Allen from MasterCard

10:10 – 10:25                    Break

10:25 – 12:00                    Capacity Planning and Performance Aspects of EMC’s Symmetrix and CLARiiON Arrays (Part 1) - EMC

12:00 – 1:00                      Lunch

1:00 – 1:15                        Overview of “EMC World 2008” which starts May 19^th

1:15 – 2:00                        Capacity Planning and Performance Aspects of EMC’s Symmetrix and CLARiiON Arrays (Part 2) - EMC

2:00 – 2:30                        Capacity Planning for Remote Replication - EMC

2:30 – 2:45                        Break

2:45 – 3:15                        Capacity Planning Methodologies/Reporting for Storage Space and SAN Port Usage - EMC

3:15 – 3:45                        Birds-of-a-Feather: "How to marry performance testing information with capacity planning predictions" - Jason Meyers from Enterprise-Rent-a-Car

3:45                                   Closing

                                          Optional - Social Gathering at Chevy’s (Kennerly & Tesson Ferry across from St. Anthony’s)

Session Overviews

Capacity Planning and Performance Aspects of EMC’s Symmetrix and CLARiiON Arrays

Ø  Jonie Chen is an EMC Division Practice Technical Lead for CLARiiON

Ø  Robert Rau is an EMC Division Practice Technical Lead for DMX / Symmetrix

Ø  Bob Davis is an EMC District Mainframe Storage Practice Lead

This session will start with an overview of the architecture and architectural differences of the EMC Symmetrix and CLARiiON arrays.  This session will focus on the capacity and performance aspects of these arrays to include: sizing, capacity thresholds, performance indicators, generational differences, the new DMX4 SMF records, LUN offsets for Linux and MS-Windows servers, and the different drive types available for each array.

Capacity Planning for Remote Replication

Ø  Larry Anderson is an EMC Division Practice Technical Lead for remote replication.

Remote replication is an integral part of most storage environments.  IT must reliably, quickly, and efficiently replicate data to remote locations for a variety of reasons: disaster recovery, consolidation, geographically local copies, etc.  This session will focus on the capacity and performance aspects of remote replication to include: array ports, WAN circuits, switches, protocols, asynchronous replication, synchronous replication, encryption, and WAN acceleration.

Capacity Planning Methodologies/Reporting for Storage Space and SAN Port Usage

Ø  TBD from EMC

Sometimes we capacity planners tend to ignore the more mundane portions of our jobs.  We might focus on the performance aspects of our storage layout, the memory usage of our IIS instances, or the CPU utilization of the Apache server, while setting aside things like “how many servers will my company need to purchase next quarter?”  This session will provide methodologies to answer two questions: “How much storage do I need to buy next quarter?” and “How many SAN ports are in use, how many are free, and how many do I need next year?”  

Show and Tell

One “Show and Tell” and one “Birds-of-a-Feather” session will be presented by Capacity Planners from our area:

• Wayne Allen from MasterCard – will discuss
  • How the capacity planning groups at MasterCard are structured and what are their responsibilities
  • An overview of the MasterCard "Banknet Plan", with details of how the WAN and end-points are capacity planned for transactions
  • What MasterCard does to add value for internal customers of server platforms (Analysis, Planning and Chargeback)  

• Jason Meyers from Enterprise-Rent-A-Car will lead our first Birds-of-a-Feather session on "How to marry performance testing information with capacity planning predictions?"  Birds-of-a-Feather, or BOFs, are where people of like interests flock together for 30 minutes -- small, focused talks or group sessions based on some kind of shared interest...and then talk about it for a while, without a pre-planned agenda.