From: Killeen, Jeff (jeff.killeen@hp.com)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 22:44:52 EDT
Below is the preliminary cut at the Unix content for HP Enterprise Technical Symposium (www.hpets2002.com). The Symposium will be held in St. Louis in October. More to come...
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1596 HP-UX Operating Environments: Architecture & Technologies for Business Critical Computing
Every operating environment has a pedigree that evolves to create that environment's unique technological and market advantage. This session provides insight into how the HP-UX operating environments' fundamental architecture and core technologies have addressed our business critical computing customers' needs in the past and how it will continue to meet them in the future. The session draws on the recent D.H. Brown study that resulted in naming HP-UX the #1 Enterprise UNIX.
Martin Whittaker, Manager of the Enterprise Systems and Technology Lab in HP's Enterprise UNIX Division presents this technologist view of HP-UX's strengths, advantages and challenges. ESTL's mission is to develop and deliver a world class HP-UX operating system kernel as the foundation for industry-leading always-on Internet infrastructure solutions and to be champions of HP-UX performance, scalability, application enablement, Linux affinity and architecture renewal. ESTL is directly responsible for many of the key HP-UX subsystems including process management, virtual memory management, logical volume management, Linux APIs and ABI, vPars, commands, and core libraries.
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1151 HP-UX and Tru64 UNIX Side by Side - Standalone Administration and Overview
As HP moves to consolidate its enterprise UNIX offerings around HP-UX with Tru64 UNIX features on Itanium, the Tru64 community is curious about the technical differences between the two companies' offerings. This session explores the technical differences between the two UNIX's in influences and evolution, kernel facilities, installation and system administration, device management, resource management, and clustering. Gain an appreciation of the relative strengths of both UNIX operating systems. This session is divided into the following areas:
* Releases, chips and platforms
* Common core - UNIX is UNIX
* Device management and storage
* Administrative frameworks and installation
* Latest enterprise features
Also see sessions 1152, 1153 and 1113.
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1152 HP-UX and Tru64 Side by Side - Clustering and Disaster Tolerance
Both HP Enterprise UNIXs offer clustering solutions - Tru64 TruCluster Server and HP-UX ServiceGuard. But they are quite different in architecture and capabilities beyond a common ability to provide a failover environment for applications. As TruCluster will be part of the future clustering solution available on HP-UX, many of the features discussed will be available on both platforms. This session covers the technical architecture and features of both solutions for clustering and for disaster tolerance (DT). Topics include but are not limited to:
* Clustering
- Overview
- ServiceGuard and TruCluster comparison
* Disaster tolerance
- Overview
- Where Tru64 DRM based and HP-UX ServiceGuard DT Solutions fall into place
- Tru64 DRM and ServiceGuard comparison
- Installation, administration and maintenance
- Distinguishing end features summary
Also see sessions 1113, 1151 and 1153.
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1153 HP-UX and Tru64 UNIX Side by Side: SMP, Partitioning and Resource Management
Making the most use of large SMP platforms is a critical competitive feature for Enterprise UNIX operating systems today. Both Tru64 UNIX and HP-UX have features and interfaces for configuring large platforms (GS Series and Superdome) into smaller computing environments via partitions or processor sets and also for controlling resources to processes, applications or user groups using resource management. As the Tru64 UNIX customer base moves from Tru64 UNIX/GS series to HP-UX/Superdome over the coming years, it will be important for the Tru64 UNIX community to understand the relative feature comparison in this area. The exciting news is that HP-UX is generally ahead of Tru64 UNIX in this area, which is strong incentive to move forward with HP-UX.
Also see sessions 1151, 1152 and 1113.
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1113 HP-UX and Tru64 UNIX Side by Side: Platform Fibre Storage
A major investment in physical and human resources in the deployment of an enterprise solution is related to the fibre channel based storage configuration. Both HP-UX and Tru64 UNIX support large fibre channel based storage configurations. This session explores, compares and contrasts the architectures, sizing and limits, as well as the management of storage on HP-UX versus Tru64 UNIX. Topics covered include:
* Introduction:
- Fibre/SCSI as standards;
- Summary of capabilities and scaling;
* Comparison of hardware components:
- Physical connections;
- Switches;
- FC Host Bus Adapters (HBAs);
- RAID controllers;
- Platform Console configuration;
* Comparison OS support:
- CAM, SCSI and Fibre Driver stack and configuration;
- Volume Manager implications;
- Hardware management;
- Administrative tasks;
* Comparison SAN Management tools
Also see sessions 1151, 1152 and 1153.
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1682 Tru64 UNIX System Installation, Configuration, and Management
This hands-on session provides the experienced system manager with the opportunity to learn how to install Tru64 from scratch, and what tools and files are used in Tru64 to configure and manage the system. The attendee will create and modify files in order to learn how these files affect the system and learn how Tru64 tools operate and affect the system. The attendee will also modify the configuration file to rebuild and reboot with a new kernel. The session will also cover booting the system and learning about the Alpha system console commands. The attendee will modify console boot flags to learn how use the use console to perform necessary tasks.
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1685 Troubleshooting and Isolating Performance Problems on Tru64 UNIX and TruCluster
This workshop will provide hints and tips on how to troubleshoot
and isolate performance related problems on Tru64.
Concepts on how to configure and tune a system for specific
workloads (such as Oracle, SAP, Webserver, NFS server) will be
explored and discussed.
Areas which will be covered are:
- AdvFS
- LSM
- Virtual Memory Subsystem
o Paging/Swaping
o Shared Memory and databases
o Unified File/Buffer Cache tuning
- Diagnosing locking issues
- How to identify why a system is spending time in system/kernel mode
- Usefull utilities available for troubleshooting
- DCPI
- lockinfo/sched_stat
- lsof/lsk
- kdbx
- Scripts and other public domain tools
- TruCluster tuning and troubleshooting
- Cluster Interconnect utilization
- Cluster Filesystem Considerations
- Cluster Alias Configuration
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1096 Oracle9i RAC on hp Tru64 UNIX Alpha Clusters
This session and technical demonstration describes the architecture that makes Oracle9i Real Application Cluster (RAC) databases highly available while functioning as highly scalable database servers. It discusses such features as the shared data model, connection and workload balancing, parallel query, and application failover. Included is a brief discussion on "traditional" or "segregated" cluster technology vs. "integrated clusters", and why that is important. Live demonstrations are used to highlight Oracle workload balancing, application failover and RAC environment management. The presentation topics include:
- Alpha systems comparisons;
- Oracle9i functionality;
- TruCluster technologies;
- "Segregated" vs. "Integrated" clusters;
- The demonstration environment
The Oracle9i demonstration shows the following functionality:
- Start the demo on a 1-node Alpha TruCluster;
- Start Oracle9i on a 1-node cluster;
- Add a second Oracle9i instance against the same shared database
(while Oracle is running on the first);
- Tru64 UNIX Management Tools;
* Web Browser Management (Insight Manager)
* Manage the Tru64 UNIX cluster from SysMan on an iPAQ handheld
(wireless management)
- Oracle database;
* Transparent Application Facility (TAF) failover
* Parallel query
* Balanced cluster workloads
* Oracle Enterprise Manager
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1114 Looking Inside TruCluster V5.x
Instructor: Jan Mark Holzer, HP
Since its introduction, TruCluster technology has been the benchmark for UNIX-based clustering implementations and, up until today, there has been no comparable commercial offering available on the market (although SUN has finally shipped SUNcluster V3.0). TruCluster is the latest version of HP's clustering software for hp Tru64 UNIX adding ease of management, "single system administration" and scalable growth to the already powerful high availability and high performance features of the previous releases.
This seminar provides an overview on how TruCluster has evolved and how it has been implemented on hp Tru64 UNIX. It provides a detailed tour throughout the TruCluster product and its subsystems.
Topics to be covered include:
* The Roots and Nature of TruCluster Software
--Releases and Roadmaps
* Key Components of TruCluster Technology and its Associated hp Tru64 UNIX Subsystems
--Basic Architecture Overview
--Event Management Subsystems (EVM)
--Cluster Filesystem
--Cluster Application Availability (CAA)
--Cluster Alias (CA)
--Device Request Dispatcher (DRD)
--Connection Manager (CNX)
--Distributed Lock Manager (DLM)
* TruCluster Hardware and Configurations
--Supported AlphaServers
--Storage Topologies
--Cluster Interconnect Options
--Best Practices for Configuring Reliable Clusters
* TruCluster Installation and Upgrades
--Installing TruCluster Software
--Upgrading a TruCluster Environment
--Installing Patches in a TruCluster
* Administration of a TruCluster Environment
--System Management Station (SMS)
--Cluster Specific Commands
--File System Considerations
--Application Integration - How to Make an Application Highly Available
> Oracle
> SAP R/3
> NFS
> Webserver/Apache
* Troubleshooting a TruCluster Configuration
--Tools and Utilities Available to Aid in Troubleshooting
--Hints and Tips
* Comparing TruCluster to SUNcluster V3.x
* Q&A
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1116 hp Tru64 UNIX and HP-UX Differences in Detail - Focus on File Systems and Storage Layers
Instructor: Brad Nichols, HP
Both the hp Tru64 UNIX and HP-UX communities are interested in the technical differences between the Tru64 UNIX and HP-UX Operating Systems as HP moves to consolidate its Enterprise UNIX offerings around HP-UX with Tru64 UNIX features on Itanium.
This seminar explores the technical differences between the two UNIX's in influences and evolution, installation and system administration, devices management, resource management and clustering. Special emphasis is placed on these topics because current HP plans are to incorporate some key components of hp Tru64 UNIX 's File System and Storage layers into HP-UX UNIX.
This seminar gives hp Tru64 UNIX professionals a sense of the overall differences between the two operating systems and provides HP-UX professionals with insight into AdvFS and storage layer facilities that are to appear in forthcoming releases of HP-UX.
The seminar is divided into the following areas:
Part I - Differences Overview
* Releases, Chips and Platforms
* Common Core - UNIX is UNIX
* Device Management and Storage
* Administrative Frameworks and Installation
* Latest Enterprise Features
Part II - File Systems and Storage * In-Depth
* Hardware Management, Disk Devices and Multipathing
* Volume Managers: LSM, VxVM, and LVM
* Buffer Caches
* Journal File Systems: AdvFS and VxVM
Q&A
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1123 TruCluster High-end SAN Case Study with Oracle Based on BASS (ACXIOM)
This session describes high-end system stress and failure injection against a Tru64 Cluster on a 2 node, 64 CPU GS320 system configured with over 100TB disk farm, 72 fibre channel switches, 36 HSG80 and 6 HSV110 controllers. This is currently the largest StorageWorks SAN system tested within HP and is known as the Big Acxiom SAN System (BASS). The testing is a partnership between Tru64/AlphaServers/Storage/Acxiom and Oracle9iRAC to proactively test pre-release products. The session reviews the optimal design of a large Tru64 cluster with goals to reduce and eliminate the number of defects found post-release. We show how we have optimized IO for high bandwidth DSS workloads. We share what we found as we stress Tru64's fibre channel multipathing and explain how to adjust system limits accordingly. Aside from running basic disk and tape IO to new performance levels, we share results for 3 different Oracle9iRAC workloads. We aggressively tested failure injection, and the failover capabilities for disk, controller, fibre channel switcher, host adaptors, network controllers, cluster interconnect, Oracle instance failures and node crashes. The failure tests were repeated for basic IO and during the peak high-performance Oracle workloads. We also share pointers to best practices identified by the team for normal 24x7x365 procedures, like disk failure/replacement, live firmware updates and controller swaps, tape backup/restore.
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1138 Tru64 (TM) UNIX to HP-UX Migration Strategies
This session discusses the Tru64 UNIX to HP-UX migration tools, investments and technologies moving from Tru64 UNIX into HP-UX. It also covers the Tru64/Alpha roadmap and investments.
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1141 Securing Tru64 UNIX: Step by Step
This session describes how to secure a Tru64 UNIX system. An out-of-the-box Tru64 UNIX system is designed for ease-of-use, and its defaults may not be secure enough for many applications. This session covers topics such as secure installation, tailoring the system security features, protection from network attacks, and complete system lockdown.
Topics covered include:
- Security policies
- Secure installation methodology and specifics
- System lockdown
- Enhanced security configuration
- Useful utilities
- Network parameters
- Changing /etc/inetd.conf
- Startup scripts
- Configuration
- Sendmail
- File system
- Sysconfig tunables
- Audit configuration and usage
- Monitoring for violations
- Forensic analysis
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1142 Using the Right Tools to Troubleshoot Performance and Configuration Problems on HP Tru64 UNIX
This session explains useful tools and techniques which can be used to troubleshoot and isolate performance problems on Tru64 UNIX-based systems. The tools covered are either part of the base operating system or available as shareware via the Internet. Common problems and issues are also covered.
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1143 Considerations Running Large Scale Oracle8i & 9i Databases on hp Tru64 UNIX
This session covers the common problems and issues found when running large scale Oracle environments on Tru64 UNIX/TruCluster. Differences between 8i & 9i are highlighted. Tuning recommendations for Oracle and best practices in these environments are covered.
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1145 HP-UX and Tru64 UNIX Roadmap
Hear details of the HP-UX / Tru64 UNIX strategy and directions, positioned in the context of the overall HP Business Critical Systems group roadmap and UNIX strategy. The session describes how HP-UX on Itanium will be positioned to lead the enterprise UNIX market and will discuss the key elements of the HP commitment to bring Tru64 UNIX customers and ISVs successfully through the transition to HP-UX.
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1146 Application Development on Tru64 UNIX and HP-UX: Differences, Similarities, Impact and Strategies
This session outlines the differences and similarities between HP's UNIX operating systems: Tru64 UNIX and HP-UX. The session should be of interest to Tru64 UNIX application developers interested in deploying products on the Itanium processor running HP-UX. The session provides an overview and roadmap of the capabilities HP is delivering to assist developers supporting their current environments, as well as Itanium based products. The effect which Itanium platforms will present in customer's environments running Tru64 UNIX and the role ISV applications play is reviewed.
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1150 Solutions for Tru64 UNIX Disaster Tolerance - An Overview
This session covers the key technologies and solutions currently available for use by systems integrators when designing disaster tolerant solutions for customers who are using Tru64 UNIX. The session provides a high-level summary of the Campus Wide disaster tolerant cluster and the soon to be released Tru64 UNIX disaster tolerant Geoplex. We discuss the DT Geoplex planned capabilities and the product design, and then briefly touch on product usage."
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1170 Optimizing Tru64 UNIX and Oracle9i for TPC benchmarks
The TPC benchmarks are designed by an open consortium to mimic real world commercial transaction processing benchmarks for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP - TPC-C) and Decision Support (DSS-TPC-H). This session discusses how to optimize these benchmarks on Tru64 UNIX/AlphaServer running the Oracle9i database. We review AlphaServer hardware configurations, including the new Marvel GS1280 CPUs. We share Tru64 UNIX V5.1a automatic and manual tuning alternatives to optimize performance for ES and GS machines for large OLTP and DSS environments. The optimization process shows performance results when using RAID0 vs. 5, effect of LSM, AdvFS vs. RAW disk I/O, AdvFS when using Oracle 9i Direct I/O. We also share Oracle9i's CPU scaling with an AlphaServer and compare to Oracle9i cluster scalability between multiple AlphaServer nodes with Tru64 UNIX V5.1a clusters. Techniques to optimize CFS traffic when using Oracle 9i are reviewed.
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1174 Tru64 UNIX Tools & Techniques for Monitoring NUMA Aspects of GS160 and GS320 Systems
This session is a tour of the NUMA enhancements in Tru64 UNIX with an emphasis on practical ways to demonstrate, determine and monitor them. It examines in turn the overall configuration, process management, memory management and storage. For example, questions such as the following will be answered:
- How to determine how many Process Affinity Groups (PAG)s are on a system?
- Which PAG is a specific thread associated with?
- How many thread migrations has the system done to balance thread load between PAGs?
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1203 Migrating to Tru64 Unix v5.1a with TruCluster Server Case Study
This case study discusses the process of successfully migrating to Tru64 Unix v5.1a with TruCluster Server from Tru64 Unix v4.0g with TruCluster Production Server 1.6 for ESCO Corporation. It addresses the aspects of beforehand planning for this major release of the O/S and cluster layered products suite, focusing primarily on working through the issues discovered throughout the migration. It actually addresses the setup of two clusters, designed to interact efficiently supporting Oracle’s n-tier architecture and applications. To do this effectively in the time allotted, the experience gained within each area below will be addressed with the intent to aid system administrators with a knowledge transfer that can help them in their own planning and execution efforts:
- Mapping out your cluster plans beforehand, function choices, license changes, etc.
- System console level checks, settings, and tests
- Installing the bœstagedb O/S and preparations for moving to a cluster
- Preparing SAN storage, partitioning bœslicingb at the HSG level
- Transparent & multi-bus failover mode co-existence and SAN zoning by cluster safeguards
- NetRain network setup surprises
- Clu_Create - booting from the SAN, issues to understand beforehand, failure fixes
- CDSLs, CDSLs as mount points, and restricting CFS mounts among cluster members
- Cluster aliases and use of reserved network IPs
- Clu_add_member b“ preparations and actions upon success
- NSR, a distribution kit shipped issue with clusters
- Persistent SCSI reservation troubles and workarounds
- Activating the ESVF, the Extended System V Functionality under Tru64 v5.1a and Collect for SAR
This session is a must for anyone preparing for a Tru64 Unix v5.1a with TruCluster Server migration from Tru64 Unix v4.x with TruCluster Production or Available Server. It should also prove helpful for those responsible for managing a data center utilizing Tru64 clusters and StorageWorks SAN technology and the technical staff directly responsible for systems/cluster/SAN administration.
This session addresses a customers experience and is intended to layout the process for proper migration planning and to share implementation issues, which can be minimized/managed based on the experience gained. The session includes various configuration management documents and graphics, which can be used as templates for an attendee's own purposes, i.e., cluster setup overview, setup step guides, and/or migration management records.
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1224 The Third Porting: Applying Past Lessons to the Alpha/Itanium Transition
The transition from Alpha to Itanium will be the third major architecture assimilated by the OpenVMS and Tru64 communities since the release of the original VAX-11/780 in 1978. Some aspects of each port have been painless, and others have proven to be challenges.
The announcement of the transition to Itanium has provoked much comment. However, much of the commentary has not addressed the detailed questions of what areas represent significant problems and what areas are likely to offer fewer problems than might otherwise be expected.
This session examines the technical aspects of the Itanium transition. Issues are examined both in the context of the Itanium transition and in terms of how the details of the Itanium transition compare to previous transitions (VAX->MIPS; VAX->Alpha; PDP-11->VAX; and MIPS->Alpha).
There is an emphasis on the issues raised by the most recent experiences with porting to Alpha;
while earlier examples are used to further illuminate the technical issues.
This session is suitable for technical and managerial IT professionals and users.
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1257 hp StorageWorks Secure Path
hp StorageWorks Secure Path is high availability, multi-pathing software that enables continuous data access for applications using hp storage solutions. Get an introduction to the new Windows V4.0 product and its support for storage consolidation, improved data availability, and reduced management costs. An overview of multi-pathing technologies and terms is followed by a description of the SANworks Secure Path architecture and technical features. In addition, configuration hints for each of the supported platforms - HP-UX, IBM AIX, Novell NetWare, Sun Solaris, Windows NT and Windows 2000 - are described, as well as hp AutoPath migrations.
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1354 Configuring and Installing Fibre Channel Storage and hp StorageWorks Secure Path for HP-UX
Participants familiar with storage concepts/configurations gain experience and knowledge in the installation and configuration of Secure Path for the HP-UX platform. With NSPOF (no single point of failure) more of a requirement than an option, this course can help prepare you for the MultiPath environment. Topics include:
- Overview of Secure Path for HP-UX V3.x
- Installation of Secure Path for HP-UX V3.x kit
- Configuration of Secure Path and storage
Engineers conducting the workshop have experience in both the OS and storage and will guide participants through all aspects of the installation/configuration process.
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1361 HP-UX Compiler and Development Tools Update
This session describes, at a high level, the features and functions of the HP-UX Fortran, C and C++ compilers. It also describes the features and functions of the HP-UX development tools - in particular the caliper performance tool and the wdb debugger. Roadmaps for the compilers and tools are presented with special emphasis on the migration path from Tru64 Alpha platforms to HP-UX Itanium platforms.
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1381 High Performance Math (MLIB) and Message Passing (MPI) Libraries for Linux Clusters and HP-UX Systems
HP produces high performance libraries for application developers including HP's Mathematical LIBrary (MLIB) and Message Passing Interface (MPI). These libraries have a long history on HP-UX and are now being produced for HP Linux systems.
HP MLIB is a collection of high performance math subprograms optimized for use on HP servers providing mathematical software and computational kernels for engineering and scientific applications. HP MLIB contains robust callable subprograms, including all BLAS 1, 2 and 3 subroutines, sparse BLAS subroutines, a collection of commonly used dense and sparse linear system solvers, including LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, and SuperLU_DIST; Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs), and convolutions. An overview of the MLIB product and performance of some key algorithms are shown.
HP MPI is a high performance implementation of the MPI standard. HP MPI provides developers of technical applications a standard API to support parallel message-passing applications that are efficient, portable and scalable. It presents a flexible computation model that allows applications to run on clusters of parallel servers. An overview of the HP MPI product is provided, including progress and plans for MPI-2 implementation."
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1399 The Technology Faststart Special Bootcamp
Instructors: Multiple
The Compaq-HP merger has created a brand new series of technologies that leverage best-in-class solutions from both companies. This special two-day bootcamp will cover the breadth of many of the technologies you will likely encounter over the next 18 months as you consider the next round of implementations in your organization. In addition to a wealth of valuable information, participating in this course will help you decide which sessions to attend at the Symposium that immediately follow this bootcamp.
The Bootcamp will cover:
* Introduction to Linux
* Introduction to HP-UX
* Introduction hp ProCurve Networking
* Introduction to OpenView
* Introduction to Tru64
* Concepts of Storage Area Networks Basics and Interconnect
* Concepts of Storage Management Software and Storage Virtualization
* Overview of Management Toolup roadmap and UNIX strategy. The session describes how HP-UX on Itanium will be positioned to lead the enterprise UNIX market and will discuss the key elements of the HP commitment to bring Tru64 UNIX customers and ISVs successfully through the transition to HP-UX.
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1146 Application Development on Tru64 UNIX and HP-UX: Differences, Similarities, Impact and Strategies
This session outlines the differences and similarities between HP's UNIX operating systems: Tru64 UNIX and HP-UX. The session should be of interest to Tru64 UNIX application developers interested in deploying products on the Itanium processor running HP-UX. The session provides an overview and roadmap of the capabilities HP is delivering to assist developers supporting their current environments, as well as Itanium based products. The effect which Itanium platforms will present in customer's environments running Tru64 UNIX and the role ISV applications play is reviewed.
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1150 Solutions for Tru64 UNIX Disaster Tolerance - An Overview
This session covers the key technologies and solutions currently available for use by systems integrators when designing disaster tolerant solutions for customers who are using Tru64 UNIX. The session provides a high-level summary of the Campus Wide disaster tolerant cluster and the soon to be released Tru64 UNIX disaster tolerant Geoplex. We discuss the DT Geoplex planned capabilities and the product design, and then briefly touch on product usage."
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1170 Optimizing Tru64 UNIX and Oracle9i for TPC benchmarks
The TPC benchmarks are designed by an open consortium to mimic real world commercial transaction processing benchmarks for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP - TPC-C) and Decision Support (DSS-TPC-H). This session discusses how to optimize these benchmarks on Tru64 UNIX/AlphaServer running the Oracle9i database. We review AlphaServer hardware configurations, including the new Marvel GS1280 CPUs. We share Tru64 UNIX V5.1a automatic and manual tuning alternatives to optimize performance for ES and GS machines for large OLTP and DSS environments. The optimization process shows performance results when using RA>
1453 Introduction to the HP Partitioning Continuum
HP-UX has been touted as having the widest and most flexible set of solutions for partitioning servers in the industry. This session describes each of the partitioning solutions, nPars (hard partitions), vPars (Virtual Partitions), Resource Partitions, and the industry leading Workload Manager Product.
In addition to describing the features of each of these solutions, we describe the key advantages each has over the others in order to help the audience make informed decisions about which of these options they may want to use for a particular solution."
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1455 ProLiant Clusters - Intro to MC/ServiceGuard for Linux
MC/ServiceGuard for Linux is complementary to the popular HP-UX offering and is now available on ProLiant servers. Come and find out what HP supports in the MC/ServiceGuard / Linux HA environment, how MC/ServiceGuard works, who is using the product, and where HP is taking MC/ServiceGuard in the future."
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1486 How to Port and Tune Applications for Itanium (R) 2 on HP-UX
In this session, we discuss the HP-UX development environment. This instruction is specifically aimed at porting and tuning applications on the Itanium (R) 2 platform running HP-UX. Topics covered include: compiler flags for optimization, possible porting issues, the use of the WDB (GDB) debugger, a statistical profiler prospect, a general purpose performance analysis tool caliper and pi (performance investigator), a non-intrusive hardware analysis tool. Scenarios showing the use of these tools are presented.
Prerequisite: UNIX development experience.
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1497 Microsoft Networking in the UNIX Environment
This session provides a basic overview of the Advanced Server products for Tru64 UNIX and HP-UX as well as an overview of the Samba product. Concepts covered range from basic installation and configuration through usage and functionality. Integration with native Microsoft servers (Windows NT, Windows 2000) and Active Directory participation are also covered for all three products. This session is meant to inform the attendee of the functionality, features, similarities and differences, so they might be aware of offerings for Microsoft Networking, file and print serving using HP's UNIX operating systems.
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1543 Java Performance Tuning
Find out how to performance tune your HP-UX box for Java development. Through a hands-on approach, this lab introduces you to a variety of HP tools that you can use to performance tune your Java applications. Exercises cover various areas of performance tuning including setting kernel parameters, optimizing garbage collection, profiling your application, identifying microbenchmarks, analyzing stack traces, and detecting memory leaks. By the end of this lab, developers will know how to identify and solve common Java performance tuning problems.
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1597 HP Servers Roadmap from the Business Critical Server Division
In this session, we provide a straighforward overview of the new HPs server lines, Tru64 UNIX, and HP-UX operating systems roadmaps. It includes plans for integrating Tru64 UNIX features into HP-UX and how to use this information today as to plan your future IT infrastructure.
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1620 Tru64 UNIX and TruCluster Technical Update
This session provides a technical overview of the Tru64 UNIX V5.1b operating system and the TruCluster Server V5.1b products. The key new functional features of each product release as well as recent enhancements made are also discussed. Additional topics include:
- Tru64 UNIX/TruCluster release roadmap
- Key capabilities in the current version of Tru64 UNIX
- Key capabilities in the current version of the TruCluster software
- What's new
- Glimpse of the immediate Tru64 UNIX future"
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1622 HP-UX Security Quick Start
Instructor: Don Pipkin, HP
HP has added numerous new security features to HP-UX recently. This presentation will review these features, explain how they are used, and give detailed configuration information. The four hours will cover:
*Integrating HP-UX into an Enterprise Security Strategy: Your information enterprise is a heterogeneous environment where simplicity is needed in both administration and user experience. This requires integration with enterprise systems, including LDAP, AAA, Kerberos, Radius, and others.
*Controlling Access to the HP-UX System: Controlling the access to a system is the first step in controlling the system. Services have to be limited to specific interfaces and specific clients. Firewall-level protection is required on the host itself. Some tools that provide this are TCPWrapper and IPFilter.
*Hardening the Operating Environment: Making a system as impenetrable as possible has always been a tedious and time-consuming task. There are facilities in HP-UX to help streamline this process. These tools will be examined, including Bastille.
*Implementing Secure Communications: Secure communications are a requirement for today's networked systems. There are a variety of protocols available to provide this confidentiality, including IPSec, SSL, and SSH.
*Expanding Logging and Intrusion Detection: Intrusions are inevitable, so when they do occur, you have to be able to tell when and how. Enabling logging and intrusion detection is a requirement. It must also be monitored and interpreted.
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1638 Case Studies of Disaster Tolerant Architectures for HP-UX Environment
Designing a disaster tolerant architecture for a customer environment is an interesting challenge. This session focuses on several pre-sales technical consulting case studies. It covers the considerations and guidelines for designing a disaster tolerant architecture for HP-UX using products built on top of MC/ServiceGuard, including Extended MC/ServiceGuard Cluster (Campus Cluster), MetroCluster, and ContinentalClusters. For each case study, we will discuss how customer requirements get translated into technical designs and the infrastructure needed to build these architectures.
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HP-UX Memory Management
"This session takes attendees under the covers of the HP-UX 11i Memory Management subsystem. It details the Shared Address Space model, the paging algorithms and tunables, buffer cache, page cache, memory resource groups. It discusses ways to work with the subsystem to make the most of your 32 and 64 bit process Virtual Address Spaces. It highlights the key features of the HP-UX memory management solution and introduces attendees to where the HP vision is taking HP-UX memory management in the future. Attendees will leave this session with a deeper understanding of how to best utilize the key capabilities of HP-UX memory management to maximize their application performance."
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1644 MC/ServiceGuard on HP-UX Design Principles
This session examines how HP addresses HA design in the HP-UX space. We will discuss common Single Points of Failure (disk, power, network, standalone servers, etc) and how to eliminate them within a MC/ServiceGuard cluster. An example HP-UX enterprise architecture will be used to frame the discussion. Focus will be on the MC/Serviceguard cluster design and how package failover works. We will also touch on what other value-added tools, such as PRM and WLM, can bring to an HA environment. This session is complementary to the sessions on Configuring Superdomes in an HA environment and Configuring Disaster Tolerant Solutions.
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1676 HP-UX Beyond the Basics
This fast-paced session introduces some of the more advanced tools, techniques and resources used by HP-UX experts. The session will have a definite performance slant, and will deliberately avoid topics that are widely covered elsewhere. Rather than being a step-by-step tutorial, it offers a glimpse at what is available, and provides pointers for further learning.
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1678 Multiple OS Management Tools with Servicecontrol Manager 30
This session discusses the multi-OS server management capabilities of Servicecontrol Manager 3.0 (SCM) and gives a brief demonstration of the tool providing these capabilities for IA-32 and IA-64 (IPF and Superdome) environments which use Linux and HP-UX operating systems. SCN can manage multiple devices from file and print servers up through Superdome systems.
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1014 Powering Your Business with HP AlphaServer Solutions
In this session, Rich Marcello, Vice President and General Manager of the Alpha Systems Division, highlights the important role HP's business critical and high performance AlphaServer products play today and well into the future. Rich discusses the latest advancements across HP's AlphaServer product family, the latest on the future Itanium processor family, and an update on the related operating systems strategy. In particular, the updated OpenVMS roadmap for continued development and support on the AlphaServer platform as well as a review of the progress to date for porting OpenVMS to Itanium-based systems is shared. Additionally, the latest up-to-the-minute plans for integrating Tru64 UNIX into HP-UX on the Itanium architecture as well as the continued development and support of Tru64 UNIX on the AlphaServer platform is covered.
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Jeff Killeen
Encompass - An HP User Group
HP ETS Business Manager
Phone: (508) 735-9613
Page: JeffPage@IDM-IO.com
All Info: http://www.Killeen.cc
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