IKEA's, an international home products retailer with nearly 300 stores in 30 countries, IT department has gone from regular CD installs to fully standardize and automated network installations. In this presentation Claes Adamsson, a solution architect at IKEA, will provide an overview of IKEA's IT environment, and explain how they use their key IT components, which include: Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server, and PXELINUX.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decoding the Code | Strategize | Wednesday, September 2 | 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM |
Industry-standard benchmarks (e.g., TPC, SPEC, SAP, etc.) provide an agreed-upon definition of workload and performance metrics that seek to measure hardware, applications, and operating systems. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has received best-in-class results for a number of industry-standard categories, which include TPC-H and SPECweb.
In this presentation John Shakshober will detail the current performance measures of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Shakshober will discuss industry-standard benchmarks in the database, OLTP, ERP, messaging, and virtualization space. He will analyze the strengths and weaknesses of benchmark results, as well as the mapping of benchmarks. This analysis will provide insight into how various factors, such as the actual customer environment, are determined.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decoding the Code | Optimize | Wednesday, September 2 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
SystemTap provides invaluable insight into the operation of computer systems by allowing developers and system administrators to instrument executing code without recompilation.
Various SystemTap scripts, which determine the root causes of performance problems, will be demonstrated at this presentation. William Cohen will demonstrate typical techniques, including associative arrays and filtering data, used in SystemTap scripts. In addition to SystemTap example scripts, Cohen will utilize SystemTap programming idioms to identify performance issues.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decoding the Code | Optimize | Wednesday, September 2 | 2:10 PM - 3:10 PM |
In this presentation Steve Dickson, a Red Hat consulting software engineer, will describe the upcoming improvements to the NFS file system that will be in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Those improvements include changing the default protocol version to use NFSv4 to improve performance and scalability. Dickson will address the availability of NFSv4 minor version 1 (NFSv4.1), which is an enabler to the leading-edge Parallel NFS (pNFS) technology that is used in cluster environments. He will also discuss debugging techniques (including trace points and system tap scripts).
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decoding the Code | Optimize | Wednesday, September 2 | 3:20 PM - 4:20 PM |
While Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is an incredibly powerful tool for securing Linux servers, it has historically had a reputation for being difficult to configure, so many system administrators would simply turn it off. Fortunately the incredible amount of work done by the SELinux community in recent years has made SELinux much more system administrator-friendly.
Attendees of this presentation will learn the basics of SELinux, which include configuring, analyzing, and correcting SELinux errors, as well writing basic policies to enable non-SELinux aware applications to work on SELinux protected systems. Real world examples will be used to better demonstrate how to use SELinux.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decoding the Code | Manage & Secure | Wednesday, September 2 | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 will be the most comprehensive technology platform to date. The purpose of this session is to discuss how best to structure the product composition to address customer use cases.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decoding the Code | Wednesday, September 2 | 5:45 PM |
Red Hat Satellite Server is a powerful, flexible systems management solution for deploying, managing, monitoring, and redeploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. Red Hat Satellite allows users to decrease administrative costs and increase time available for strategic tasks by performing single operations through the web user interface. These single operations can affect some or all of their servers.
This presentation, given by Red Hat's Thomas Cameron, explores the most useful Red Hat Satellite tips and tricks used by the Red Hat Systems Management subject matter expert team. Presentation attendees will learn how to use Red Hat Satellite in advanced, complex, and/or large-scale environments.
This presentation, which will be presented as a series of live demonstrations, is comprised of advanced usage topics, which include:
Upon completion of this presentation, attendees should understand the uses for all of these technologies and be able to perform all of these tasks.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decoding the Code | Manage & Secure | Thursday, September 3 | 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM |
In this presentation Mike Snitzer, a senior software engineer at Red Hat, will describe how to tune the Linux storage subsystem to obtain the best performance based on a particular application and storage configuration. Snitzer will also detail how to configure and manage LVM for optimal performance. Presentation topics include:
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decoding the Code | Optimize | Thursday, September 3 | 11:20 AM - 12:20 PM |
Security management, whether for one system or for thousands, is perhaps the most important aspect of security on Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has an unmatched set of core security features, which include: netfilter, exec-shield, the audit subsystem, SELinux, and access-control lists. If an organization combines the breadth of security applications with those features, it has the ingredients to build solutions with unmatched security. Too often, however, organizations fail to use these features correctly and/or to their full potential because of the difficulty and cost of managing them.
This presentation will detail how organizations benefit from the implementation of open source system management tools to configure, monitor, and update the security configuration of Linux systems. The suggested techniques are based on real-world experience building secure solutions and appliances targeted at the most demanding environments. These techniques produce secure systems that can be easily configured and audited to comply with the most stringent security requirements and standards.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decoding the Code | Manage & Secure | Thursday, September 3 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
The understanding that development of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel is slow moving, and that upstream kernel development is fast, raises many questions, such as:
Rik van Riel, a senior software engineer at Red Hat, will discuss what happened in the upstream kernel since RHEL 5 was released. He will provide an overview of how much was backported to RHEL 5 and what features will only be available in RHEL 6. He will also detail the tradeoff between stability and features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel updates, and provide insight into the backport decision-making process.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decoding the Code | Strategize | Thursday, September 3 | 2:40 PM - 3:40 PM |
This presentation will cover everything a systems administrator should know in order to prepare for an Oracle installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Brian Likosar, a Red Hat solutions architect, will conduct a demonstration of the main components of an Oracle installation and lead a discussion about further considerations for growth of the environment. In addition Likosar will:
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decoding the Code | Deploy | Thursday, September 3 | 3:50 PM - 4:50 PM |
With an architecture based on the Condor workload scheduler from Red Hat Enterprise MRG and the systems management capabilities of Red Hat Satellite, organizations can quickly build a mechanism that can deploy systems without system administrator intervention. In addition organizations can track system usage for internal accounting and charge-backs and auto regulate power consumption in the grid.
In this presentation Erich Morisse, a Red Hat senior solutions architect, will demonstrate an architecture that allows end users to deploy their own systems, maintain charge-back information, and control power consumption in the grid. The presentation will address:
Themes including: automation, deployment, systems management, power consumption, and cost reduction will be addressed and Red Hat Enterprise MRG, Red Hat Satellite, and Red Hat Cluster Suite will likely be represented.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decoding the Code | Manage & Secure | Friday, September 4 | 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM |
Dell and Red Hat have worked together for over a decade to provide open source device drivers that are built into each OS version and work on most Dell PowerEdge Servers and Precision Workstations. Because there is a need for new or updated device drivers for the customer's existing operating systems, deployment of new-to-market servers is a challenge.
Dell and Red Hat are simplifying new server deployment using Red Hat Enterprise Linux's device driver update model and Dell's built-in systems management features. This collaborative solution ensures the right drivers are present for the customer's new server, when the customer needs it.
| Track | Path | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decoding the Code | Deploy | Friday, September 4 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |