St. Louis - Computer Measurement Group

Second quarterly meeting of 2009

Aug 18th, 2009

Presentation Abstracts

Capacity Planning and Crunching Data in the Cloud

-Adrian Cockcroft

Cloud computing is a new world for capacity planning, many things that capacity planners take for granted do not apply or are reversed from what we are used to. In this talk, we will take a peek at the new world, and will then show just how easy it is to get work done using cloud computing. Instead of worrying about what the definition of cloud computing might be, let’s focus on how you can use it yourself to do large scale log processing. This presentation will show how you can upload huge datasets to a cloud, crunch them with a large cluster of computers using Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), and do it all from your web browser for a few dollars charged to a credit card.

Free and Bundled Tools

-Adrian Cockcroft

Capacity planning and performance management tools have been commercially available for many years. A new generation of freely available tools provides data collectors and analysis packages. As the underlying computer platforms and network devices have evolved, they have added improved data sources and have bundled free data collectors. Several open source and freeware projects have sprung up to collect and display cross-platform data, and with the advent of highly functional free statistics and modeling packages comprehensive analysis, modeling and archival storage can now be assembled. Free and bundled tools are of special interest to sites with very diverse mixes of systems, very large sites where licensing costs become prohibitive, and sites replacing a few large single systems with many more low cost horizontally scaled systems.

IBM Service Management Update

-Mark Saunders

IBM Tivoli’s group has changed dramatically over the last 5 years, much due to acquisition.  Mark Saunders will whiteboard the Tivoli vision and Strategy for Enterprise Service Management. 

JVM Monitoring

-Steve Klopfer

• Tips to help you quickly pinpoint the source of bottlenecks or other defects in application code, server resources and external system dependencies before they affect customers.
• What capabilities do you need for both distributed and IBM® z/OS® environments.
• Consistent ways to manage composite applications across WebSphere and other JVM environments.
• Tips to help you to detect, analyze and repair application server performance issues, maintain high uptime, performance and responsiveness standards for both mainframe and distributed systems, and understand overall application health at a glance across multiple system types.

Storage Resource Management

-Michael Stempf

·         Learn tips for automated storage resource discovery and how to integrate with an overall provisioning strategy

·         Data mobility in a heterogeneous enterprise SAN environments

·         Simplify the management and improve the availability of the SAN environment.  

·         Learn ways to view and analyze multiple aspects of the storage environment, including capacity, utilization, assets and availability.

z/OS Workload Manager: z/OS V1R11 Update

-Glenn Anderson

This session is intended to bring you up to speed about recent enhancements in Workload Management up to the previewed z/OS Release 11. You will hear about WLM support of HiperDispatch, work-dependent enclaves, enhancements in WLM Sysplex Routing and Contention Management, blocked workload support, Group Capacity Limits, the all new Workstation based policy editor and other new WLM features.

Connecting the Dots: WLM,  Dispatchable Units, zIIPs and zAAPs

-Glenn Anderson

Your z/OS System and WLM manage different types of transaction and server workloads with multiple dispatchable units - TCBs, SRBs, enclave SRBs. Multi address space application scenarios use a combination of velocity and response time goals across multiple WLM service classes to manage performance. In addition, some of these workloads are also eligible to be redirected to zIIP and zAAP specialty engines on your System z processor. Let’s connect all these pieces together to understand WLM management of enclaves and what makes work eligible for zIIPs and zAAPs.

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Meeting Details

Date: Tuesday August 18^th

Time: 9am to 3:30 pm

MetLife - St Louis Campus

(Main Entrance)

13045 Tesson Ferry Rd, St. Louis, MO 63128

Cost:    $25 if paid by July 18^th

            $50 if paid by Aug 11th

            $75 at the door 

Fee is waived for anyone who is out of work and

 for Full-time College Students with ID; must RSVP by August 11th

Send payment to

St. Louis Computer Measurement Group

P.O. Box 1474, Maryland Heights, MO  63043

or

Use PayPal to send your payments to stlcmg@cmg.org  

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Agenda

8:30 – 9:00                        Registration, Continental Breakfast and networking

9:00 – 9:15                        Welcome and Introductions – Ben Geolat

9:15 – 10:15                      Capacity Planning and Crunching Data in the Cloud

9:15 – 10:15                                                                Presented by Adrian Cockcroft of Netflix

10:20 – 11:20                    Free and Bundled Tools

                                          Presented by Adrian Cockcroft of Netflix

11:30 – 12:00                    IBM Service Management Update

                                          Presented by Mark Saunders of IBM

12:00 – 1:00                      Lunch – sponsored by IBM

Afternoon – offers a choice of two tracks

3:15                                   Re-assemble as a group

3:30                                   Closing

Optional - Social Gathering at Chevy’s (Kennerly & Tesson Ferry)