z/VM and Linux under z/VM
Performance Class

Schedule for 2008

October 29-30, Leipzig, Germany

Many installations have offered to host this workshop. If there is sufficient interest for this workshop in a specific location it will be held in that location. Please note your prefered location. The normal location for this workshop otherwise is our education facility in Mountain View, California. Please note if you prefer any of the following locations: New York City, Atlanta, Charlotte NC, Washington DC Area, Richmond VA, Minneapolis, Chicago or Mountain View.

Click on the location of the desired date to fill out the Registration Form

FEE (Full Schedule):
Customers: $1995.00,
NonCustomers: $2495.00

FEE (First 3 days):
Customers: $1695.00,
NonCustomers: $2195.00

Speaker: Barton Robinson - - "If you can't measure it, I'm just not interested", author of many performance manuals and presentations, Product architect and developer of Velocity Software.

Overview: This workshop is designed to educate you on performance analysis, capacity planning, and tuning for the z/VM platform, and the Linux on z/VM environment. Note that all analysis examples utilize reports from Velocity Software's ESALPS, as many of the necessary analysis functions are only available from these products.


AGENDA
DAY ONE

Performance Overview

- Monitoring z/VM and Linux on s/390
- z/VM performance Measurement
- Measurement Methodologies
- State sampling
- Response Time

Performance Commands

Using the Scheduler/Dispatcher
DAY TWO

Back to Top


Subsystem Performance

- Process/MP
- Storage
- Paging/Spooling
- MDC
- DASD

Performance Measurement and Analysis Lab


DAY THREE

Network Monitoring and Tuning

Linux Monitoring and Tuning

- Linux Processor Analysis
- Storage Analysis
- Rack vs Virtual Server
- Consolidation Planning

Measuring and Tuning z/VM Topics


DAY FOUR (1/2 Day)

Use of Velocity Software, Inc. Tools

- ESAMAP - Tailor/Use
- ESAEXTR
- ESAMON - Tailor/Use
- TUNEFRC
- Alerts
- ESATCP - Tailor/Use