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Attendee InformationPre-Conference SeminarsMonday, June 16, 2008
Consider broadening your HP knowledge by attending one of these pre-conference seminars:
NEW! Get a sneak peek at a few of the pre-conference seminars by registering for these Webcasts.
Title: Active/Active Systems: Theory and Practice Active/active systems achieve extreme availabilities (literally, seconds of downtime per year). This seminar explains why these systems can obtain such high availabilities and how such systems are built. Fundamental to active/active systems is the need to keep database copies in synchronization. The data-replication engines that perform this function are explored in detail with examples of available products. Active/active systems are compared to cluster technology. Several examples of successful active/active implementations currently in production are described. Objectives:
Who Should Attend: System architects or IT management. Usually, this group is responsible for system availability and budgeting. Why Should People Attend?
Title: Challenges and Solutions for 24x7 Continuous Availability and Unlimited Scalability in Mission-Critical HP NonStop Environments Unimpeded 24x7 access to real-time information is what today's users of critical business systems have come to expect, placing tremendous pressure on the IT organization to put architectures and solutions in place to meet that need. This presentation provides an in-depth, practical look at high availability and performance scalability technology challenges for NonStop environments. Attendees will walk through three systematic views for high availability:
The presenter will discuss ways to better understand and differentiate solutions for each of those three availability states, including synchronous vs. asynchronous replication and even options for conflict detection and resolution in dual-active implementations. Real-world customer best practices examples and product demonstrations will further illustrate this session. Objectives:
Who Should Attend: Attendees of this session may include key individuals responsible for projects involving high availability solutions. Usually, this group is responsible for solutions for disaster tolerance, zero-downtime operations, business continuity however, they may also perform data integration across other platforms. Why Should People Attend?
Title: MR-Win6530: Making the Most Out of the New Console Emulation After a selection process among all emulation vendors, HP chose MR-Win6530 as the new standard emulation delivered with the NonStop System Console. MR-Win6530 9.0 enables full 6530 connectivity and secure file transfers supporting both of the two standard encryption protocols, SSH and SSL. Objectives:
Who Should Attend: System administrators or developers Why Should People Attend?
Title: Security Compliance Education and Practical Solutions for the HP NonStop Server This seminar will guide attendees through the security requirements for PCI, SOX, HIPAA, SB1386, and more. The XYPRO's Auditor's Checklist is a format that easily finds and references a particular security requirement, shows how it specifically relates to the HP NonStop environment, and addresses it to the satisfaction of an auditor. Objectives:
Who Should Attend: Security administrators, systems managers/administrators, and internal auditors. Usually, this group is responsible for security configuration and compliance; however, they may also perform systems management duties and provide audit knowledge expertise. Why Should People Attend:
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Quick Introduction to HP NonStop Server Fundamentals This seminar provides an introduction to HP NonStop server architectures and to the system software that makes them reliable, scalable, open, and fast. It describes goals that have governed and are continuing to govern the evolution of these systems, and it reviews Nonstop server application, database, and operations environments. Title: Quick Introduction to NonStop SQL/MX Database for SQL/MP Users This overview of SQL/MX, includes system catalog, system schemas, definition schema and its metadata tables, user catalogs and schemas, tables, indexes, etc. Attendees will become familiar with the SQL/MX Data Definition statements to create, alter, drop objects such as catalogs, schemas, indexes, views, constraints, etc. and some of the SQL/MX utilities, such as, DUP, INFO, import, migrate, MODIFY, mxtool, POPULATE, PURGEDATA, and RECOVER. In addition, they will learn how to use Grant and Revoke statements to set up access privileges on a table, view, or stored procedure. Title: Quick Introduction to SOA/Web Services on NonStop This seminar will introduce attendees to the technology that is SOA (Service Oriented Architectures), what it is, and how it works. Once the concepts are introduced you will learn how SOA can be used on NonStop servers, including the available tools and techniques for creating new implementations as well as upgrading existing applications to SOA. Additionally, attendees will have the opportunity to work on a simple lab using NonStop SOAP to "wrap" an existing application to SOA. Title: Quick Introduction to NonStop Enterprise Plugins for Eclipse This seminar will introduce Eclipse and the HP NonStop Enterprise Plug-in for Eclipse (EPE) to attendees. Participants will get the chance to add code to supplied programs in C, pTAL, or COBOL, then compile and link edit them on a workstation using Eclipse and EPE, and transfer the executables to an Integrity NonStop for execution. The participants will be able to explore features of EPE such as the Debug and Release configurations. Title: A Survey of Virtualization Technologies This seminar surveys the virtualization technologies available in the industry today, including servers, storage, and networking. Server virtualization includes hard partitioning, soft (virtual) partitioning, micro-partitioning, and resource partitioning. Storage partitioning includes comparing host-based and storage-based RAID, a discussion of multi-pathing and redundant components across the entire path from the host to the disk, data management across storage tiering, storage virtualization inside a single cabinet and between cabinets, as well as shared file system virtualization. Network virtualization includes subnetting, a discussion of multi-pathing and redundant components, namespace management and address failover. Attendees will learn the common functions of virtualization for the products available from all of the major vendors, discovering similarities and differences. The seminar will cover the common functions that all of the virtualization technologies perform and show similarities and differences on each platform. Moreau will place an emphasis on management of virtualization and compare it to managing non-virtualized environments. Finally, the seminar focuses on the business problems that can be solved by virtualization and how to match different technologies to specific business requirements. Title: Discover the Best Practices of ITIL v3 Discover the best practices of ITIL v3. This how-to seminar is designed to introduce the IT Service Management (ITSM) process objectives, activities, relationships, benefits, and critical success factors needed to achieve ITIL success. We'll explore ITSM and its contribution to demonstrable IT service value. This seminar will help you better understand what others have done to define, document, and obtain a return on investment from ITIL. Who Should Attend: Senior IT and business executives, IT executives, process owners, process implementation team members, IT management and staff, project managers, and others interested in learning about IT service management or responsible for the successful implementation of ITIL processes. Outline • Introduction to ITSM
• ITIL Landscape
• ITIL v3 Service Lifecycle Processes
• Successful Process Establishment
Title: EVA Management Utilities, Techniques, Tips and Tricks This seminar is designed for the storage administrator who has already started managing their HP EVA environment but desires to use the various utilities that can make their EVA management more effective and productive. The seminar will also cover a variety of documented and undocumented tools and techniques, including what you may request from your HP support organization. The course will include downloadable scripts and examples, and will also feature live demonstrations of selected techniques. Students are encouraged to share their EVA management techniques and experiences. Content Outline: Overview and review of EVA Management
CommandView EVA usage and Limitations
SSSU Script language and script files
SAN Switch management and monitoring
Replications Solution Manager (RSM) introduction
Continuous Access (CA) usage
EVAPerf Usage
Monitoring your EVA with MRTG
EVA Multipathing tools and techniques
Driver and Firmware updates
HP EVA monitoring with ISEE
HP Tools and reports
Case studies, war stories, and roundtable discussion Objectives:
Who should attend: Attendees of this session may include SAN managers who are experienced using other SAN arrays, or managers who have started managing an HP EVA. Usually, this group is responsible for Storage Area Network Management. However, they may be systems administrators who provide storage support as part of their system administration duties. Why should people attend?
Title: Hands-On Troubleshooting and Security at Packet-Level Bring your laptop to pre-loaded with Wireshark to complete a series of hands-on lab exercises focused on troubleshooting network performance and securing network communications. During the troubleshooting portion of this course, attendees learn to gauge and interpret latency, packet loss, congestion, and configuration faults. During the security portion of this course, students examine network reconnaissance processes, insecure applications, a botnet infection, failed virus detection tool update, and more. All students receive the new Laura's Lab Kit v8 DVD that contains all the trace files needed for the course, voice-over-video courses, additional tools for analysis, and numerous course supplements. Title: Information Technology and Management for Storage Networking Solutions As a vendor-neutral trade organization, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) works in conjunction with its members around the globe to make storage networking technologies understandable, simpler to implement, easier to manage, and recognized as a valued asset to business. The SNIA is dedicated to:
Content Outline:
Objectives: SNIA is dedicated to high-level knowledge exchange, thought leadership, and promotion of the understanding and adoption of networked storage. In support of this mission, we are offering a pre-conference seminar that will deliver knowledge-based, vendor-neutral education and information on networked storage and associated technologies. This seminar will cover the key technology areas and issues facing storage professionals today, including: IP storage solutions, protecting your data, disaster recovery, data de-duplication, benefits of networked storage, storage security, information classification, and best practices for long-term retention. Who Should Attend: This seminar is designed for attendees with responsibility for their company's or their clients' storage strategies, including:
Title: Linux Virtualization Uncovered: Leveraging OpenSource-based Virtualization in Your Datacenter Over the past 20 months, virtualization in Linux has been on the front page of every IT publication and blog on the Internet. It has to change eventually everything in our datacenters and many IT organizations are looking at virtualization with Linux as one of their next major initiatives. Despite all of the hype, it is important to understand on how one can leverage virtualization in a datacenter and imperative to understand how it is installed, configured, deployed, and managed. This seminar will provide an overview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Fedora Core and its integrated virtualization technology (including future technologies currently under evaluation). It will cover how to install, configure, and manage it in an enterprise environment and how to leverage virtualization in datacenter deployments. Content Outline:
Title: Using OpenVMS Clusters for Disaster Tolerance This seminar describes how to use OpenVMS Cluster technology to provide disaster tolerance for the IT operations of a business, where disaster tolerance is defined as the ability to continue operating, uninterrupted and without data loss, despite a disaster to the extent that it causes loss of an entire datacenter site. World events have raised the awareness of many businesses about the increased risk of disasters and the need to put sufficient provisions in place ahead of time so that IT operations can survive a disaster and continue functioning. This seminar is aimed at assisting those who are considering or planning to implement a disaster-tolerant OpenVMS cluster or those who have one in place and need to know more about operating and managing it. This material includes real-life examples based on years of experience from sites which have built and operated disaster-tolerant clusters in real-world situations. Content Outline:
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Who should attend: Attendees of this session may include OpenVMS configuration architects and OpenVMS system managers (but might also include disaster recovery or business continuity experts who are responsible for a set of IT operations which include the use of the OpenVMS platform). Usually, this group is responsible for configuration planning as well as day-to-day operation of OpenVMS Cluster configurations; however, they may also perform future configuration design duties, consult with application developers on how best to take advantage of an OpenVMS Cluster configuration, and provide disaster recovery and business continuity expertise. Why should people attend?
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