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Platforms (including Blades and Manageability)

Sessions focus on HP NonStop servers with an emphasis on the NS series and next-generation systems, storage, and data communication and platform manageability. Sessions will highlight real-life experiences in migrating to NS-series NonStop servers, upcoming HP products, and system manageability products and best practices.

P-1161-HP
New IO for NonStop Blades
Wilbur Marshman, HP
Audience Level: Introductory

NonStop systems (both Blades-based and NS-series) feature brand new Linux-based controllers for storage and communications. This session discusses the architecture, feature/function, manageability, and performance of the brand new products.

P-1380-HP
Integrity NonStop Introduction

Mike Hurst, HP
Audience Level: Introductory

A technical introduction to Integrity NonStop for people not familiar with these systems. We will discuss NonStop fundamentals as well as review markets and examples where NonStops are being used.

P-1449-HP
Web ViewPoint and Plug-ins: What's New, What's Next
Khody Khodayari, HP
Audience Level: Intermediate

Many new features have been added to Web ViewPoint and other operation management tools. New plug-ins are available and in the works. Come learn the latest and voice your future needs.

P-1450-HP
NonStop Performance Management and Analysis
Khody Khodayari, HP
Audience Level: Intermediate

Learn how to best utilize available tools from HP to monitor and analyze the performance of your NonStop servers. See the new NonStop SPAM and how it integrates into the overall solution.

P-1452-HP
NonStop Blade Server Management
Vinay Gupta, HP
Audience Level: Intermediate

This presentation covers how to manage NonStop blade servers as well as the strategy and architecture of NonStop blade server management. Attendees will learn how to deploy a NonStop blade server and attached I/O, starting from its startup and configuration to monitoring and control. All the functionality of NonStop blade server management tools such as OSM, SCF, and other new tools will be described. In addition, the presentation will cover the functionality of HP SIM, NonStop I/O Essentials, and NonStop Cluster Essentials with respect to NonStop blade servers.

P-1453-HP
NonStop Cluster Essentials and I/O Essentials
Vinay Gupta , HP
Audience Level: Intermediate

NonStop Cluster Essentials and NonStop I/O Essentials are two of the products of NonStop Essentials product family. This suite of products integrate with HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) to provide management solutions.

NonStop Cluster Essentials provides an integrated management solution for homogeneous clusters of NonStop servers, and heterogeneous clusters of NonStop and Linux servers. It provides solutions for integrated health monitoring, integrated alert monitoring, integrated event monitoring, single-click boot, virtualized configuration and control, unified account management, software consistency check, and integrated inventory reporting. NonStop I/O Essentials product provides an integrated management solution for managing I/O subsystem of NonStop blade servers, so that operators do not have to learn specific commands to configure and control I/O subsystem, thus reducing training costs and operator-induced errors. Operating NonStop blade servers becomes easy, thanks to NonStop I/O Essentials. NonStop Cluster Essentials and NonStop I/O Essentials work together out-of-box to enable I/O Essentials functionality across a cluster of NonStop servers. This talk also discusses the roadmap of future NonStop Essentials products and capabilities.

P-1487-HP
NonStop RPM Product Overview/NonStop TimeSync Product Update
Mike Miller and Collin O'Brien, HP
Audience Level: Introductory

This session will provide an introduction to two products: NonStop Real-time Process Monitor (RPM) and NonStop TimeSync.

NonStop Real-time Process Monitor (RPM) is a new HP NonStop division product that displays instantaneous color-encoded performance information about the busiest processes running in NonStop Cpus, Nodes, and Expand clusters. This segment will provide an overview of the product and also will describe RPM features including its highly efficient low-overhead algorithm, its busiest process discovery, discussion of options for sorting, filtering, and displaying information ByCpu, ByNode, and how it color-encodes information in real-time. Also discussed are advantages of the multiple interfaces it provides, including: TTY, T6530, VT100, and Fat/Thin client interfaces.

NonStop Time Synchronization is a new product family providing time synchronization services for NonStop, Linux, and Windows systems. TimeSync can operate both as a time synchronization client as well as a time synchronization server on all supported platforms, and also supports both NTP and SNTP clients and servers. This session will discuss TimeSync features and capabilities, and provide general information on installing and configuring TimeSync on your systems.

P-1490-HP
ASAP 3.0 Update
Bob Rojewski, HP
Audience Level: Intermediate

This session will provide information about the latest product version ASAP 3.0. Topics covered: ASAP performance improvements, optional SIM Integration, enhanced memory statistics, New Swap SGP, additional TCPIP stats, TCPIP plug-in included in ASAP 3.0, 12 new notify content report options, customer Web site support, and corrected problems.

P-1501-U
Leveraging Integrity NonStop Server with Existing S-Series Servers
Byron Cahill, Mayo Clinic
Audience Level: Intermediate

Mayo Clinic needed to provide higher compute throughput to their NonStop Electronic Medical Record. They endeavored to retain part of their S-series investment while providing additional transaction services. To that end, with HP and GE Healthcare's assistance, they developed a plan to migrate to a hybrid Integrity NS-16000 - S88000 system. The journey had several challenges, but Mayo successfully transitioned to this new system with minimal production disruption. There was a greater than 30 percent decrease in response time when the new hybrid system came online.

P-1575-HP
NonStop Next Generation Telco

Tom Kondo, HP
Audience Level: Introductory

This presentation is to launch a new Telecommunication product that makses use of Open Call SW running on NonStop OS using Intergity Blades. It will also make use of Linux OS from the OSLO division. The new product will ship later in 2008. This product will support telecommunication protocols such as Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the telecommunications networking layer M3UA. It will have fault tolerance from the NonStop OS. The HW will use the C7000 enclosure.

P-1680-U
Creating Web Accessible Performance Datastores using Measure, SQL and Open Tools

Mike Kilpatrick, NSK OpenSource, Inc. and Noelle LaBrecque, EDS
Audience Level: Intermediate

This session provides information on collecting Measure data in an automated fashion, creating SQL tables for storing Measure data, and formulas and techniques for dealing with the nuances of “raw” Measure data. Learn to create and maintain summary tables for long-term analysis. Participants will gain insight into how to display multi-node views of Devices, CPUs, and Processes (get the big picture); how to identify trending patterns, isolate bottlenecks, and identify issues; how to combine Measure data with non-Measure data; and how to create performance reports in Excel, Access, and HTML.

P-1804-HP
Expanding Your Business View with NonStop Transaction Analyzers: Latest Improvements for Self Service Terminal Products
Raj Dhiman, ESQ Business Services and Robert Loftis, HP
Audience Level: Intermediate

HP NonStop Transaction Analyzers for specific ATM and general POS self-service terminals were introduced at ITUG Summit 2007. Now HP is releasing major improvements, along with a new product (previously in beta) called the Self Service Terminal Operations Bridge . Financial accounts have seen fast expansion of various terminal devices now preferred by their customers. They have also learned how negative customer experiences at these devices lead to higher costs and broken loyalties. Few solutions are available to help a vast enterprise understand the real-time behavior of highly used, or much neglected, yet expensive, devices. Managing support costs and ensuring highest availability of customer services is an ever-growing issue at the highest business levels. HP NonStop products are leading the way in easy visualization of the business. These products enable IT to provide the business technology that drives growth for the enterprise.

P-1806-HP
Update on NonStop Systems Management with OVNM: Version 5 of HP Operations
Robert Loftis, HP and Mark Washeleski, ESQ Business Services
Audience Level: Intermediate

HP Operations Agent for NonStop, and its partner, the HP Performance Agent, provide easy management of NonStop systems on their own, or as part of a vast HP Operations enterprise of multi-platform systems. See the latest version of OVNM - the acronym is still used but is related to the earlier HP OpenView products. Version 5 proposes much enhanced functionality for NonStop systems management: an object map utility for a customized graphical view (no need for HP Operations Manager); notifications via e-mail/page for extended policy violations; suppression of unwanted emails; templates to reduce need to write recovery processes; auto control of object monitoring--regardless of subsystem; and new availability report generation options. You'll also learn about new enterprise-wide improvements: support for latest HP Operations Manager for Windows (Version 8.0), for BMC Enterprise solution, and enhanced Tivoli support; plus a Java-based “host management client” to stop/start a Nonstop Agent from Unix Management Servers.

P-1819-HP
Measure Update
Greg Stewart, HP
Audience Level: Intermediate

Learn about recent and future enhancements to Measure, including support for the NonStop Multicore Architecture, cluster I/O modules, and increased data file limits.

P-2022-HP
HP Integrity NonStop Blade Server Software Overview
James Smullen, HP
Audience Level: Advanced

This is an architectural overview of the multiprocessing NonStop OS. This version of the OS runs only on blades servers and support multiprocessing within each logical CPU.

P-2027-HP
NonStop Performance Update
Navneet Aurora, HP
Audience Level: Advanced

The presentation will highlight the performance of NonStop servers and subsystems on the latest revision of the Nonstop kernel.

P-2685-HP
2008 NonStop Server Operations Management Update
George Haskell and Robert Loftis, HP
Audience Level: Introductory

This presentation will consist of brief updates on the major OM products. Detailed presentations on most of these products will be included in the technical program for ITUG Summit 2008. Major emphasis will be placed on new products such as NonStop Cluster Essentials, NonStop Cluster Performance Essentials, and NonStop I/O essentials, which are beginning to integrate the NonStop OM environment into the larger HP Systems Insight manager (SIM) management environment.

Also, attendees will learn about directions for OVNM and OVNPM, HP's Operations Agents for NonStop systems and performance management. These products support easy management of NonStop systems on their own, or as part of a vast HP Operations enterprise of multi-platform systems. Finally, we'll cover major improvements and a new product for visual analysis of transaction flow at self-service terminals, such as ATM and POS devices.

P-2798-HP
Protecting Your Data - The Latest in Tape Media Backup Solutions for HP NonStop Servers
Larry Mendoza, HP
Audience Level: Introductory

In the past three years, the enterprise dynamic for backup, archival, recovery and data protection has shifted dramatically. Industry compliance pressures have driven customers to aggressively pursue encryption, key management, and data compression, while windows to perform these activities have shrunk. Please join Larry Mendoza, HP NonStop product manager for Tape Media Backup Solutions (TMBS), as he walks attendees through TMBS technology changes, enhancements, and roadmaps for HP NonStop servers, including the new NonStop BladeSystem for HP Virtual TapeServer, physical tape offerings, and more.

P-2799-HP
Overview of the HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem Hardware
James Klecka, HP
Audience Level: Introductory

This presentation covers the hardware and infrastructure of the new HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem. The main focus will be on the use of the HP c-Class blade components but will also touch on I/O technologies. Also covered will be power, cooling, and rack level implementations at the system level.

P-2817-U
Next Steps in the KDDI Mobile e-Mail System

Teruaki Homma, KDDI Corporation
Audience Level: Introductory

This session introduces the next challenges in the KDDI Mobile Email system, which is running on more than 1000 processors of a single NonStop server system.

P-2902-HP
Integrity NonStop Hardware Platform Roadmap
Mittal Parekh and Mark Pollans, HP
Audience Level: Introductory

Integrity NonStop Hardware Platform Roadmap session will cover the Integrity NonStop hardware roadmap for the next three years, Integrity NonStop BladeSystem, new I/O infrastructure for IP and storage – CLIMs, and updates to NS-series Integrity servers.

P-3017-HP
Storage CLIM, a New HP NonStop Storage Subsystem
Jeff Iswandhi, HP
Audience Level: Intermediate

The Storage CLIM is a new, fast, and powerful storage subsystem for the new HP NonStop BladeSystem. This presentation covers the benefit, architecture, hardware, configuration, devices, software, performance, write cache enable and future. It is a technically informative yet understandable and engaging presentation for new and seasoned NonStop users.

P-3416-U
If You Build It They Will Trade

Pat Klatt, CME Group
Audience Level: Introductory

We have proven that as you drive response time down, order volume increases. As order volume increases, trade volume increases. The CME Group bills on a per trade basis> This makes it much easier to justify new technologies whenever the board has questions. We can draw a direct correlation between driving response time down and corporate income.