Pre-Conference Seminars

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Thank you to each attendee that participated in a Pre-Conference Seminar.

The following Pre-Conference Seminars were offered at HP Technology Forum & Expo 2007:

Quick NS-series Server Fundamentals
Speaker: Goon-Loong View
This class provides an introductory overview of NonStop NS-Series server concepts and utilities to consultants, analysts, system and database managers, and application developers having little or no previous experience with HP NonStop servers. The instructor will overview the hardware and NonStop Kernel operating system features of HP’s NonStop servers, and introduce participants to utilities and commands used to manage the user, application, file, and database environments.

Quick HP Integrity NonStop Operating System Run-Time Architecture
Speaker: Rick Comfort
This one-day course will give you an in-depth understanding of the run-time architectural concepts of the operating system up through the H06.06 release. You should have taken the S-Series Architecture course in the last 18 months, the course is focused on: “the run-time architecture, memory addressing, and protection. The TNS/E platform architecture and the impact of these architectures on program execution of TNS and TNS/E processes are also included.

Quick Introduction to NonStop SQL/MX Query Analysis and Tuning
Speaker: Rochelle Reagan
This one-day overview of SQL/MX Query Analysis where participants will learn the fundamentals of the SQL/MX compiler, optimizer and executor. Participants will use the query analysis tools Visual Query Planner, EXPLAIN stored procedure and DISPLAY_EXPLAIN to analyze query plans and become familiar with the SQL/MX operators and their tokens, such as, root, exchange, scan, grouping and sorting operators.

Quick HP Integrity NonStop Operating System Application Migration
Speaker: Terry Gunter
This one-day course provides you with the information you need to convert your applications to run on the new Itanium-based NonStop systems. The course starts with an overview of the new hardware architecture and then covers migration information for each of the main languages. Other topics include the debuggers that are available on the new systems, the new linker, and the Enterprise Toolkit (ETK).

Hands-On Troubleshooting and Security at Packet-Level
Speaker: Laura Chappell, Protocol Analysis Institute/Wireshark University
Course level: Beginner/Intermediate

Bring your laptop pre-loaded with Wireshark to complete a series of hands-on lab troubleshooting network performance and securing network communications exercises. Receive a new Lab Kit v8 DVD containing course trace files, voice-over-video courses, analysis tools and numerous course supplements.

Attend to:

• Troubleshoot network performance problems efficiently and accurately, reducing recovery time from network faults.
• Identify network security breaches before they occur by recognizing the signs of reconnaissance on the wire.
• Recognize the unique signatures of network attacks to rapidly build and deploy blocking and filtering mechanisms that protect the network.

High Availability Technologies and Best Practices
Speaker: Ken Moreau, HP Solutions Architect, Business Critical Systems division, Technology Solutions Group
Course level: Intermediate

Review the latest clustering product advancements behind high availability and disaster tolerant technologies from every major player in the industry. This popular 2006 seminar speaker continues to explore these hot technologies in relation to virtualization, wide area networking management, and distributed storage. We will use HP as a case study to show how reducing from 87 datacenters to 3 can increase reliability while dramatically decreasing costs, and how the use of all levels of management software can reduce downtime while improving business processes.

Attend to:

• Correctly map industry-wide product capabilities to business requirements.
• Obtain proof points and materials to win management approval for high availability and disaster tolerant designs.
• Successfully evaluate the level of protection that business problems require, to generate the best ROI.
• Review the best practices of the next generation datacenter, from the physical placement of equipment to ITSM and business processes.

Be better equipped to interact with internal and external customers by honing coaching, communication, and time management skills.

Attend to:

• Delegate successfully, manage time and balance responsibilities better.
• Provide employees guidance and maintain appropriate controls.
• Coach rather than manage for faster turnaround and better performance.
• Practice meaningful and effective communication in everyday situations.

Gain the tools and training to properly set up, manage, and optimize an OpenVMS storage environment from HP experts with extensive experience supporting numerous OpenVMS customers utilizing SAN storage.

Attend to:

• Understand common SAN configuration, set up, and management for an OpenVMS environment.
• Explore OpenVMS capabilities and management tricks for SANs.
• Gain tips for managing SAN devices related to OpenVMS systems.
• Learn tips to make troubleshooting easier.
  Understand OpenVMS Storage Performance Management theory, metrics, tools and best practices.

Develop winning storage strategies and use best practices in performing routine EVA storage administration tasks.

Attend to:

• Better understand EVA 4000/6000/8000 architecture and how it impacts design decisions.
• Understand EVA configuration and deployment best practices.
• Utilize management tools to automate routine tasks.

A script will be provided to automate logfile scanning, trimming and summaries, disk space warnings, and running remote commands securely on multiple systems. Obtain checklists to standardize systems, including lists of changes and profiles that simplify user management.

Attend to:

• Reduce downtime by standardizing multiple systems for reliability and ease of use.
• Learn patch management techniques and how to manage disk space.
• Performance measurement and tuning.
• Review time-saving scripts and tools for automated administration and monitoring.

Implement an integrative business management strategy to eliminate or remediate potential risks before availability is impacted. Build a knowledge base around remediation, methods and practices that are reportable for regulatory compliance, and risk management by leveraging the intelligence in a business’s Log files.

Attend to:

• Discover critical events management best practices.
• Better understand the relationship between critical events and availability.
• Analyze aggregated events to spot noteworthy issues or trends causing outages.
• Employ regulatory mindset and business knowledge to resolve problems.
• Better manage Server Blades, Virtual Machines, Itanium and Alpha hardware for availability, security, and compliance.

SNIA Education: Future Storage Industry Standards, Best Practices and Training
Speaker: Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Academy

Understand and implement best practices surrounding networking technologies based on industry trends. This one-day seminar will cover the key technology areas and issues facing storage professionals today including: IP Storage Solutions, Storage Consolidation, Future of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Protecting Your Data, Disaster Recovery, Fibre Channel, Storage Security, Information Classification, Information Lifecycle Management and what to consider when Archiving Information for the Long-Term along with specific iSCSI deployments in the IT arena.

Attend to:

• Increase knowledge of IP storage solutions and storage consolidation
• Learn how to protect your data and more about Disaster Recovery
• Examine the information lifecycle and archiving standardss