MVMUA 123, April 11, 2005
Location/Directions:NYC
Metropolitan VM Users Association 123
April 11, 2005
Information Builders Corporate Headquarters
24th Floor - 2 Penn Plaza
7th Ave, and 32nd St.
New York City, New York
(Right above Penn Station)
9:00 AM Continental Breakfast
10:00 AM Meeting Opening - Bill Munson
10:15 AM Martha McConaghy - Marist College - z/VM 5.1. Early Experiences
This presentation is directed to those who are looking to either install or
upgrade to z/VM 5.1.0. It will include an overview of the new features of
the release and important updates that have come out since it became generally
available in Oct. 2004. Marist was part of the early support (testing) program
for z/VM 5.1.0 and Martha will relate some of their experiences with it.
11:30 AM LUNCH Break
There are plenty of places for LUNCH close to IBI
1:00 PM Ed Arnold, Al Kline - IBM - SYSPLEX setup with z/VM 4.4.
The z/VM virtual Coupling Facility support, which was made available in VM/ESA 2.3,
simulates a hardware coupling facility for running a guest sysplex. This presentation
shows how one installation has set up this function.
2:15 PM Coffee Break
2:30 PM Tony Tomarchio - ADUVA - Aduva ONstage
Aduva, one of the select ISVs included in IBMs "Chiphopper" announcement, will be
providing a technical product overview of Onstage. Aduva Onstage provides complete
systems management for Linux servers and desktops across multiple hardware platforms.
Learn how to improve the systems management of your Linux on z/VM environment from a
single console which can also manage your distributed servers and desktops. A demo
is also planned.
4:00 PM Questions and Answers and the IBM give away's.
4:30 PM thank you very much.