1. 9:30-10:00 - Arrival, Coffee 10:00-10:15 – Welcome, Bill Moraca Peter Ciarrocca, IBM Client Technical Support Manager, Middle Atlantic States 10:15-10:45 - Bill Wood, Verisign: Automating VM Deployments 10:45-11:00 – Break 11:00-12:30- AIX Virtual User Group Meeting (Webinar on AIX Best Practices, by Steve Pittman, FTSS from CA) 12:30-1:00 - Wrap-up, Lunch and Depart Welcome to the NoVA Power/AIX User Group

3. How to maintain the Repeatable - Serviceable - Transparent Virtual Server

4. Problems:  2 days of training  Installation took a day  OPS “Shortcuts” Goals:  Repeatability  Follow on support  Ease of maintainability

5.  Everything shared  All Virtual Clients see all resources  SAN storage only for VM’s ◦ 64 gig OS drive ◦ 32 gig AMS drive  Ethernet virt ent0 equals phy ent0 etc  Hypervisor private network  Storage pool  Always install all 10 virtual clients

7. Items of Note:  No dual VIOS servers  OS drives are vscsi from the vios server to the vm’s  SAN storage is NPIV  OS drives are mirrored on the arrays only  Everything is shared – prep for LPM. Driving Ideals – 1.At no time should the VIOS server need to be taken down just to add a resource for a VM 2.Any SA should be able to work on the server without prior knowledge of how it “might” have been setup. 3.All VM’s should “look” like the physical machine.

8. VM Ideals –  Configured the same  All pre-configured, used or not  Look like the physical machine  See all resources  Should not be required to “re-activate “ to add or remove cpu/ram VM Statement - The virtual machines are “resource limited” by the users – not necessarily the server. Thus removing the operators, who are outside of the user departments, from creating artificial limits that are not beneficial to the users. Sharing: Uncapped Weight: 128 Proc pool: 0