Provisional Agenda:
09.30-10.00 Registration
10.00-10.50 New RAID Technology - Rob Adams, HP
HP has offered a variety of 'standard' RAID arrays for years. The configuration of these was
always a compromise until the development of AutoRaid. This presentation will summarise the
'standard' HP RAID technology and then introduce the features and benefits of the AutoRaid.
10.50-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.50 The Journaled File System - Rob Adams, HP
Improving the 'availability' of computer resources has always been a priority of businesses. The
JFS introduced in HP-UX 10.x provides the administrator with many advantages by using both
the 'base' and in particular the 'on-line' versions. A presentation of the features and benefits.
11.50-12.40 Logical Volume Manager - Rob Adams, HP
Introduced at HP-UX 9.x on the servers and HP-UX 10.x on workstations, LVM has evolved into
a flexible and versatile technology for managing disk space. This presentation will summarise
LVM and focus on the 'new' features that facilitate the improvement of availability of disk
resources.
12.40-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.15 SCSI Disk Performance - Steve Boniwell, ABC Workstation Solutions
The area of SCSI performance has traditionally been one of some confusion. With the increase in
the types of SCSI and it's broader acceptance in systems, this confusion has increased. This
discussion offers some guidance into the variations of SCSI and how to get the best from SCSI
devices.
14.15-14.45 New Large File Systems for HP-UX 10.20 - Steve Boniwell, ABC Workstation
Solutions
With the introduction of HP-UX 10.20, it has become possible to utilise files greater than 2Gb.
This presentation gives an overview of this capability; and the programming changes that may be
required to make best use of it.
14.45-15.15 EMC RAID Solutions - Jane Ayres, Organised Computer Systems
An explanation of the options available.
15.15-15.30 Tea
15.30-16.00 Hierarchical Storage Management - George Elms, Konfidence Solutions
As electronic document and file archives grow it will become more important to manage storage in such a way as to give fast and easy access to all of a companies records. The answer to this dilemma lies with HSM - can this be of benefit to you or your company?
What do you do when you have many live nodes and the message appears saying "insufficient
disk space on this server"?
16.00-16.30 Expert Round Table / Close
The cost of the event is:
MEMBERS: 49.94 (42.50+VAT@17.5%)
NON-MEMBERS: 99.88 (85.00+VAT@17.5%)
For more information mail kernel@hpworks.demon.co.uk
