November, 2008
by Ellen Friedman and Tom Kelman
New York CMG held their fall meeting on October 17 at the downtown campus of St. John's University. The board and members of NYCMG would like to thank Sysload for their sponsorship of the meeting. It was very well received by everyone who attended.
The meeting was opened with a vendor presentation by Sysload on their solution to enterprise wide performance management utilizing their unique agent technology for VMware ESX 3.0, IBM LPARs, and Solaris 1.0. Then Emmanuel Sauvion of Sysload continued with a presentation on "Performance Management in the VMware World." In his presentation he answered the following questions.
Next Charles T. Foy, Siemens Medical Solutions, presented an interesting perspective on effective problem management in his topic "Say Goodbye to Post Mortems, Say Hello to Effective Problem Management." In his paper he discussed how his company investigates, classifies, communicates, and remediates the causes of service outages. He pointed out that many outages have more than one root cause and explained the process that Siemens Medical Solutions uses to link these root causes to come up with a final solution to the problem.
During the lunch break the attendees discussed ideas for topics for future meetings.
After lunch, Michelson Award winner Annie Shum discussed SOA in "Cloud Computing and Virtualization."
An outstanding meeting was closed by Ellen Friedman, SRM Associates, with a review on VMware HA and DRS considerations in her topic "Capacity Planning and Performance Considerations for VMware with DRS." In her presentation she discussed the metrics and best practices for performance tuning and capacity planning on VMware. She also pointed out the special consideration introduced by High Availability (HA) and Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS).
New York CMG's next meeting is scheduled for February 11, 2009. One of the speakers scheduled for the meeting is the CIO of Vkernel. Be sure to place this date on your calendar. It promises to be another excellent meeting.