System i Tips & Technics from IBM & IBS

December 13, 2006

IBS Speakers : Danny Simon & Dirk Vande Walle
Danny Simon is a System Engineer who has 22 years of experience in Migration, upgrading, and recovering. He is certified solution expert from the version V410 till V530 in subject like Solution design, implementation, LPAR, Windows integration, Linux integration. He is involved in major project needing availability.
Dirk Vande Walle is a System Engineer who has more a Analyst profile. He is involved in all Software HA proposal and implementation. He has many year of experience in this technology. He is IBM certified Solution expert in subjects like Solution Design, implementation, LPAR, Windows and Linux integration.

Availability became more and more an main issue but most of the time Availability didn't mean the same for all of us. This session is intended to position the different solutions and "availability" level with the different technologies. This session will give you enough questions and answers to know what you really expect from your "availability" project and what to expect from the solution who is proposed. This presentation will cover from Disaster recovery till continuous availability.

Defining the words like Availability and Recovery
(Are we talking about the same ?)
Business requirements and Customer consideration
(What is the scope of the SLA ?)
Technologies : Basic Availability Function ,
i5OS cluster technologies Topology examples
Experiences

9:00 - 9:30 Coffee and Welcome
9:30 - 10:45 IBS Tips & Technics High Availability Part I (Danny & Dirk)
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:15 IBS Tips & Technics High Availability Part II (Danny & Dirk)
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:30 IBM Sizing & Capacity Planning Part I (Jos Vermaere)
14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break
14:45 - 16:00 IBM Sizing & Capacity Planning Part II (Jos Vermaere)

IBM Speaker : Jos Vermaere
Jos Vermaere is Senior Server Solutions Architect and iSeries Specialist 27 years of IBM, spent mostly as Systems Engineer, later as IT Specialist in the mid-range systems environment (S/3x, AS/400, iSeries). Joined the ITSO in 1987 until 1991; strong link with ITSO remained up to today; authored and co-authored several ITSO deliverables (Redbooks, workshops, presentations, etc.). Several presentations for the COMMON organization. Currently role as Systems Architects in the Server and Technology Group.
During this session, an overview will be given about sizing and capacity planning for the System i, covering aspects such as: What is performance all about, how to conduct a sizing and capacity planning exercise, lessons learned Components that contribute to performance Tools and Rules-of-Thumb for sizing and capacity planning Specific areas of interest, such as tuning (partitioning, database, programming, globalization, Java, iSCSI, backup and virtual tape support, etc.) and performance governance.

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