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Picking the Right File & Storage System for your Application

Ric Wheeler — File System Team Manager and Architect, Red Hat

Several new file and storage technologies have recently reached maturity and are now being offered as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In this session, Ric Wheeler will provide:

• An overview of the newest file systems, including brief overviews of ext3, ext4, XFS, NFS, and GFS
• A compare-and-contrast guide for architects looking to select the right technologies for their applications
• New features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux that span the boundary between storage systems and file systems (e.g., enhanced support for data integrity, tuning for solid state drives, and automatic alignment of file systems to the underlying storage)

Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 Series Servers: A Catalyst for Mission-Critical Transformation

Robert Shiveley — Mission-Critical Server Product Manager, Data Center Group, Intel

With the introduction of the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series, together with high-end system designs offered by system vendors, businesses are now able to deploy their mission-critical applications on highly-scalable, highly-reliable Intel Xeon-based servers.

In this session, Robert Shiveley will explain the increasing capabilities of Intel’s latest Xeon server platform, which includes robust support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Robert will also discuss real life success stories of IT shops that have deployed their mission-critical workloads on Intel Xeon processor-based servers.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Best Practices & Advanced Use

Vinny Valdez — Senior Enterprise Architect, Red Hat

Robert Proffitt — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

Join Vinny Valdez in a follow-up to his 2009 Red Hat Summit session, “Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization in Real Life,” as he explores advanced usage of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

Session topics will include:

• Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager in high availability using various clustering technologies
• Best practices in typical Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization deployments
• Red Hat Consulting’s deployment assistance
• Typical customer deployments and use cases for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Architecture

Itamar Heim — Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is comprised of a set of components, including:

• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Desktops
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Notifications service and history collection
• Spice
• VDSM
• Guest drivers and agents

In this session, Itamar Heim will cover these various components, discussing their roles and the interactions between them, that work together to provide the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization solution.

Cisco UCS & the Virtual Interface Card: An Architecture for Guilt-Free Virtualization

Shrijeet Mukherjee — Engineering Manager, Cisco

Joe Vaccaro — Product Manager, Cisco

No matter what stage of deployment you are at with your datacenter, virtualization, or cloud implementation, this session will help you understand how Cisco’s Unified Computing System and the Virtual Interface Card, provide an innovative approach to virtualization through increased network control, improved performance, and a consistent operational model. Cisco’s unique management capabilities combined with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and KVM virtualization allow organizations to manage virtual machines and their virtual network resources as well as physical machines and physical network interfaces with a cohesive approach.

In this session, Cisco’s Shrijeet Mukherjee and Joe Vaccaro will outline the Unified Computing System and the Virtual Interface Card (VIC) architecture. They will demonstrate an end-to-end model for providing network-based policy control in a Red Hat environment.

Powerful Web Presence with Ease: Drupal, Joomla, & WordPress

John Weeks — Computing Systems Manager, Utah State University

Convey important knowledge about your project effectively by empowering your entire staff to create powerful, interactive Web content with ease using Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress.

Disseminating knowledge and communications are pivotal points for the success of many projects. Using the right tool can greatly simplify getting your information to the right people. With well over 900 Web publishing platforms available, WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla have taken the dominant open source lead by allowing non-technical users to effortlessly publish information. The content can simultaneously be extended with engaging, interactive Web 2.0 plug-ins to transform your project from mundane content to a compelling experience.

Web publishing platforms enable all individuals to effortlessly contribute to a project’s Web presence. Contributors with valuable knowledge can share their information, wordsmiths can refine content, Web developers can code tools, and Web designers can enhance the look and feel in their own independent sandboxes. The true beauty of these tools is that over 10,000 free plug-ins and professionally developed themes are available for your project with as little as a mouse click.

In this session, John Weeks will:

• Detail common publishing tasks for each tool
• Demonstrate popular plug-ins and themes
• Provide simple installation procedures
• Review customization options

Attendees will finish this session with a greater understanding of how to select and implement the best publishing platforms based upon their project needs and staff roles.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG Update & Roadmap

Bryan Che — Manager, Product Management, Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise MRG integrates messaging, realtime, and grid technologies to provide an advanced platform for high-performance distributed and cloud computing. In this session, Bryan will present the latest updates around Enterprise MRG, including:

• New messaging features, including additional messaging clients, RoCE and IWarp drivers, and clustering and performance enhancements
• Updates to the realtime kernel for the latest deterministic latency performance as well as new tools
• New grid tools and capabilities for cloud computing
• The latest benchmark data for Red Hat Enterprise MRG
• Customer success stories with Red Hat Enterprise MRG

This session will also cover Red Hat Enterprise MRG’s roadmap, including what is coming in the next release and what is coming for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Cisco Virtual Interface Card: I/O Virtualization for Every Application

Ven Immani — Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco

Chris Wright — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Scott Feldman — Technical Lead, Cisco

Cisco, in partnership with Red Hat, is delivering key innovations and leveraging the momentum of the open source community with an open, integrated, and secure solution for virtualized datacenters.

Cisco’s Scott Feldman and Ven Immani and Red Hat’s Chris Wright will discuss KVM I/O and how to achieve increased performance through I/O virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization without the loss of control. This team will showcase real world performance results and use cases of the Cisco Virtual Interface Card with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, MRG, and other key applications.

Virtualizing Windows & Linux Desktops Using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops

Andrew Cathrow — Senior Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat

David Simmons — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

Server-based, virtual desktop solutions are coming of age thanks in large part to the capability and adoption of server-based virtualization technologies. Many organizations are investigating deploying virtualized desktops, and are focusing on total cost of ownership as the primary criteria in the decision. However, the value of these deployments cannot always be captured in easily-quantifiable cost savings. In this session, Andrew Cathrow and David Simmons, senior solution architect at Red Hat, will explore both the hard and soft costs and advantages that a virtual desktop deployment can bring to medium and large enterprises.

Samba in the Enterprise, Clustering, & Other New Features

Simo Sorce — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Samba is a long-lived project that has been the only widely-adopted competing solution across the industry for serving SMB over the network. Recently, Red Hat extended Samba to include native, scalable, clustering support, and also added several new features, including support for the latest Microsoft operating system.

In this session, Simo will discuss:

• Samba’s new features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

• How Samba and clustering work together
• The direction (innovation, roadmap) of the Samba community
• Future Samba developments

RHCE Focus Group

Randy Russell — Director of Global Learning Services, Red Hat

Red Hat Certification team members invite all Red Hat Certified Engineers (RHCEs) to join them in their third annual RHCE Focus Group. As with previous sessions, this session is for RHCEs only. During the session, team members will discuss new developments with the certification program, their roadmap for the future, and efforts to build a larger community and more opportunities for RHCEs.

What's New with System z

Brad Hinson — Worldwide System z Sales, Strategy, Marketing, Red Hat

Brent Holden — System z Subject Matter Expert Team Lead, Red Hat

Come learn about the IBM System z platform, and see what mainframe-specific features are included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In this session, Red Hat’s Brad Hinson and Brent Holden will:

• Detail what’s currently available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z
• Preview what technology will be available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• Provide a live demo of the new features in action

PLEASE NOTE: This session will be held in the Hands-on Lab Room — Beacon Center Complex on the Harbor Level of the World Trade Center.

Red Hat/Microsoft Virtualization Collaboration and Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Microsoft Hyper-V

John Kelbley — Senior Technical Product Manager, Microsoft

Ronald Pacheco — Principal Partner Manager, Red Hat

Red Hat and Microsoft certify and support interoperability for mixed environments. In this session, you will discover how Red Hat and Microsoft continue to deliver on their cross-certification virtualization promise. This session will include:

• Brief overview of cross-support and certification agreement

• Benefits and roadmap for Microsoft’s Linux Integration Services for Microsoft Hyper-V
• Best practices for virtualizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Microsoft Hyper-V
• Q & A

Power Your Planet with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Power Systems

Robert Friske — IBM Power Systems Linux Offering Manager, IBM

Jan Aril Sigvartsen — CEO & Senior Partner, WebDeal AS

Most datacenters today have many small, single-purpose servers. In addition to high energy costs and management headaches, these servers are frequently underutilized and yet underperform at peak loads. This creates both efficiency and user satisfaction issues. In the end, these issues cost money. In this session, attendees will learn how Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Power Systems helped WebDeal AS increase server utilization and reduce floorspace, energy, and software costs.

PLEASE NOTE: This session will be held in the Hands-on Lab Rooms — Beacon Center Complex on the Harbor Level of the World Trade Center.

Pushing the Scalability Envelope

Prarit Bhargava — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Fal Diabate — Intel Americas | SSG | Strategic Relations Manager, Intel

In this session, Red Hat’s Prarit Bhargava and Intel’s Fal Diabate will describe how the combination of Intel’s new 75XX processors and recent feature enhancements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux have opened up high-end computing power for general purpose IT deployments.

Attendees will learn how to benefit from advancements in virtualization, processor speed, memory and processor hotswap, and reliability features to open up new doors in scalability and uptime in their enterprise datacenters.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Roadmap

Tim Burke — Vice President, Platform Engineering, Red Hat

In this session Tim Burke will:

• Provide a technical overview of the new major features and themes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases
• Provide technical details about the much-anticipated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 release
• Highlight key performance features and recent feature additions in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 release stream
• Illustrate how other Red Hat product releases in virtualization and middleware provide a broader solution stack

KVM in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Bill Burns — Engineering Manager, Red Hat

This session will provide an introduction to the KVM technology that will be presented in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. In this session, Bill Burns will:

• Highlight the features and capabilities planned for KVM in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, including the capabilities that will be carried over from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Detail KVM usage, explaining how it integrates into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and how it relates to other portions of the virtualization stack
• Discuss an architecture overview, hardware requirements, and related items, including KSM, best practices, supported guests, future enhancement plans, and performance

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Feature Overview

Steve Grubb — Principal Engineer, Red Hat

Several security improvements have been made to Red Hat Enterprise Linux since the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 release. In this session, Steve Grubb will:

• Provide an overview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 enhancements that were made with regards to various security and regulatory compliance standards
• Introduce the minimal platform install project
• Detail plans for SCAP content, certification, and tools
• Discuss SHA2 work the lower capabilities project, and current Common Criteria preparation
• Detail our FIPS-140 certification work
• Introduce the key escrow work for disk encryption

AMD Opteron™ 6100 Processor (“Magny-Cours”) Architecture & Chipset Features: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Performance Impact

Bhavna Sarathy — Technical Engineering Lead Red Hat Alliance, AMD

In this session, AMD’s Bhavna Sarathy will discuss the twelve-core AMD Opteron™ 6100 Processor (“Magny-Cours”) architecture and its supporting features. Bhavna will provide a drill down on the SR5690 chipset that introduces IOMMU and SR-IOV capabilities. The Opteron 6100 is the first processor with Direct Connect Architecture (DCA) with two memory controllers, and is producing impressive performance gains in relation to scalability, and increased memory bandwidth with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Bhavna will close out the session with information and features of IOMMU v.2, which were introduced last month.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Overview & Roadmap

Andrew Cathrow — Senior Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat

In this session, Andrew Cathrow with give an overview of the first nine months of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization customer deployments, covering common practices and uses cases. He will also outline Red Hat’s roadmap for virtualization over the next 12 to 18 months.

Delivering a Powerful Desktop

Curtis Zinzilieta — Regional Manager, Solution Architects, Red Hat

Jonathan Blandford — Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat

Join this session as some of the most sophisticated desktop users and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop engineers discuss their needs, uses, and plans for the future.

Learn about how cutting-edge businesses are leveraging and driving open source desktop solutions to increase performance and advance standards within their industry. Panelists will discuss everything from customer development to the underpinnings of performance. Red Hat’s manager of software engineering, Jonathan Blandford, will join the panel discussion to highlight how upcoming features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop will provide even greater performance capabilities in the future.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Roadmap Replay

Tim Burke — Vice President, Platform Engineering, Red Hat

In this session Tim Burke will:

• Provide a technical overview of the new major features and themes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases
• Provide technical details about the much-anticipated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 release
• Highlight key performance features and recent feature additions in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 release stream
• Illustrate how other Red Hat product releases in virtualization and middleware provide a broader solution stack

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Advanced Diagnostic Capabilities

Jiří Moskovčák — Software Engineer, Red Hat

Andrew Hecox — Support Diagnostics, Program Manager, Red Hat

While no one can guarantee bug-free software, Red Hat is putting additional efforts into the critical time between bug discovery and bug resolution. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 contains two new advanced diagnostic capabilities:

1. ABRT (Automatic Bug Reporting Tool), which catches unhandled application failures
2. Report, a library and interface for reporting errors to Red Hat Global Support Services

During this session, Jiří Moskovčák and Andrew Hecox, Red Hat Global Support Services’ program manager for diagnostics, will demonstrate how ABRT and Report work to deliver critical diagnostic information in Red Hat’s customer incident tracking system.

It's Not your Grandfather's SELinux

Daniel Walsh — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

In this session, Daniel Walsh will show attendees new SELinux features and explain how to use them in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. He will cover several SELinux topics, including:

• Confining users
• Securing your virtual environment
• Securing the desktop
• Controlling grid jobs
• Sandboxing: putting the power into the hands of the administrator
• Building and shipping your own SELinux policy

Reduce Servers, Increase Availability with IBM Power and Symantec Veritas

Jeff Scheel — Linux for Power – Chief Architect, IBM

Chris Johnson — Senior Technical Product Manager, Symantec

Companies have been managing large numbers of small, single-purpose servers. By consolidating these workloads and reducing the server footprint, IT organizations can achieve dramatic savings in hardware and operational costs, without taking on added risks. With advanced high availability and disaster recovery architectures, organizations can identify potential trouble spots and ensure that applications and their underlying databases recover faster with automation and better coordination.

Attend this session to learn how, through consolidation projects on IBM Power Systems, a smaller number of servers can support the entire end-to-end application environment, reducing the organization’s operational costs for power/cooling and systems management. Also learn how Symantec makes the migration path to IBM Power Systems easier while improving storage management and ensuring high levels of availability for end users.

Next-Generation Red Hat Management Tools for the Datacenter & Cloud

Bryan Che — Manager, Product Management, Red Hat

In this session, Bryan Che will introduce Red Hat’s next-generation software offerings for managing everything from bare-metal Red Hat Enterprise Linux installations to the cloud.

Effective Eclipse: Coding, Debugging, Teamwork

Andrew Overholt — Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

In this session, Andrew Overholt will introduce attendees to Eclipse technology and its usefulness for Linux developers. Using demonstrations, he will illustrate the powerful combination of the Linux tool set and the Eclipse development environment. Focus will be on C, C++, and Java, and will include interactions with gcc, gdb, Subversion, Valgrind, OProfile, and Bugzilla.

Driving Standards in the Efficient Enterprise

Matt Domsch — Technology Strategist, Dell

A goal of cloud computing and next-generation datacenters is to deliver open, capable, and affordable computing resources to the masses. Through its efficient enterprise vision, Dell is working with the industry to deliver technologies that provide choice and yet foster simplicity in the build-out of virtual infrastructures and cloud platforms. Attendees of this session will learn how Dell is working with industry partners and standards organizations to develop workload and resource management technologies to promote flexible datacenter infrastructures.

Managing Business Critical Applications with Red Hat Network Satellite

Bryan Pennington — Senior Systems Administrator, Whole Foods Market

Chris Wells — Senior Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat

Whole Foods Market found itself facing the age-old problem of needing to support an increasing amount of business critical applications without a corresponding increase in IT resources. And if one of its most critical systems, like its order processing applications, is down, orders are not put through, deliveries could be delayed, and products might be unavailable to customers. With Red Hat, Whole Foods Market has experienced the stability, reliability, and performance it required without encountering interruptions to daily business operations.

During this presentation, Whole Foods Market’s Bryan Pennington will discuss how Whole Foods Market implemented Red Hat’s management solutions, which allowed Whole Foods Market to focus on strategic business initiatives. During this session, Bryan and Chris Wells, senior product marketing manager at Red Hat, will share:

• Best practices for managing your Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment

• Tips and tricks to get the most out of your Red Hat Network Satellite investment

Upon completion of this presentation, attendees will understand how Red Hat Network Satellite can be used to manage the full lifecycle of their Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

Hidden Treasures in your Red Hat Subscription

Marco Bill-Peter — Vice President, Global Support Services, Red Hat

In this session, Marco will detail the many treasures of the Red Hat subscription, as its value is about much more than the award-winning support from the GSS team. In this session, Marco will:

• Walk through the different aspects of the Red Hat subscription
• Discuss the product lifecycle, different hardware and software certifications, open source assurance, and stable API/ABI interfaces
• Highlight what is included in the subscriptions for download from Red Hat Network and other Red Hat websites

In addition, Marco will highlight what’s in the works to make your Red Hat subscription even more valuable via the new Red Hat Portal and updated support processes.

Accelerating IT Migration Success with a Rock-Solid HP and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Platform

Vedanta Barooah — Senior Solutions Architect – Linux Infrastructure, Technology Services, Hewlett-Packard

Alex Heublein — Director, Solutions & Strategy – Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat

It is undisputed that large enterprises around the world are aggressively adopting Red Hat Enterprise Linux to run their most business-critical applications. Yet many of these same organizations struggle to achieve the necessary rock-solid infrastructure management foundations that provide the stability and robustness to maintain high-performance environments.

Organizations new to Linux and open source are also rarely aware of the technologies and tools that can accelerate IT migration processes and dramatically improve and ease the manageability of their new environments. Without these enablers in place, organizations quickly lose momentum, progress can stop altogether, and dates can be missed. Thus, sponsorship and opportunity are lost.

In this session, HP’s Vedanta Barooah and Red Hat’s Alex Heublein will discuss various aspects of creating and managing an application and database-ready Linux infrastructure required to receive business-critical applications and data environments. They’ll also include key elements of proven migration process and methodologies required to migrate effectively to Linux with minimized downtime and risk. They will conclude this session with multiple case studies on how various customers successfully implemented large Linux datacenter environments with discussions on lessons learned and practices implemented.

.org to .com: Going from Project to Product

David Egts — Principal Architect, Red Hat

Open source software isn’t a business model – it’s a software development methodology. Even so, many companies profitably leverage the open source software development methodology to increase value for customers, lower development costs, and create competitive differentiators. The result is software that is better, faster, cheaper, and more secure. But how can these results be achieved? Actually, many differing approaches are possible, and not one size fits all.

David Egts interviewed several executives whose software businesses range from start-ups to those included in the S&P 500 to learn how open source works for them. Join David as he shares what he learned from those interviews, and see how the open source software development methodology can benefit your existing business today or how it can be used to get your start-up successfully off the ground.

New Red Hat Use Cases, Get More for your Business

Douglas O'Flaherty — Manager, Product Marketing, Red Hat

Vinny Valdez — Senior Enterprise Architect, Red Hat

This high-level session will help attendees get the most from the Web for their businesses. Attendees will learn about the new series of use cases from Red Hat as Ronan Kirby and Vinny Valdez, senior solution architect, discuss the real business pain points and how Red Hat can help address them.

One of the most critical components in any business’s IT infrastructure today is the enterprise Web presence, which is used to run everything from internal productivity applications to online storefronts. As the foundation for so many critical business functions, the right environment must be built for each specific business. Of course, a critical infrastructure of this nature carries its own risks and pitfalls. Weakness in an infrastructure’s design or execution will show through the business’ Web applications to customers and users.

For most businesses, the Web infrastructure grew organically over time and now includes multiple software vendors, hardware providers, and IT services organizations. What was intended to be best-of-breed has evolved to become distributed and overly complex. The many complications introduced by this complexity impact the ability to quickly respond to business needs.

In this session, learn to:

• Increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve responsiveness
• Remove complexity and reduce risk
• Increase your business’s flexibility
• Underpin your existing IT investment
• Pay for real value
• Reference a tried and tested design and approach
• See how others succeed with Red Hat, architecting for the future

Doing More (Innovation) with Less (Risk)

Michael Tiemann — Vice President, Open Source Affairs, Red Hat

Lee Congdon — Chief Information Officer, Red Hat

David Upton — Chair of Operations Management, Oxford University

Michael McGrath — Fedora Infrastructure Lead, Red Hat

“Doing more with less” has become a top IT priority, but there are fundamental limits to what can be accomplished by changing the players in the game. The IT industry has been locked in a 20-year equilibrium that wastes 30% of every dollar spent, built upon a code base that averages 20-30 defects per 1,000 lines of code. Moreover, with 85% of IT budgets typically spent maintaining legacy systems, the opportunity to “do more with less” is often limited to a fraction of the remaining 15%. How much can be done with so little?

The fundamental promise of innovation is that it can change the rules of the game, sometimes by orders of magnitude. But the cost of innovation is usually measured in terms of risk, and often managers are (wrongly) punished for attempting to manage risk instead of merely trying to avoid it. Path-based innovation, detailed in the Harvard Business Review article “Radically Simple IT,” explains how risk can be managed down to virtually zero while enabling IT to lead transformational change as well as lowering costs. Red Hat customers have used this approach to carve out cost by 50% to 90% while improving both system performance and schedule performance by factors of 2x or more. Closer to home, the community-led Fedora infrastructure project and Red Hat’s own IT group have successfully adopted this approach, with exceptional results.

In this panel discussion, the theory and practice of path-based innovation will serve as a springboard for discussions about how Red Hat and Fedora have learned, lived, and leveraged the model to maximize the value of innovation and technology while maintaining internal SLAs. And, of course, actually doing more with less.

Open Source Software Security in an Insecure World

Josh Bressers — Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

The nature of open source software can be confusing to some people, especially those new to the process. These people often wonder: How secure is this software if anyone can work on it? What’s to stop a bad guy from inserting a backdoor or dangerous bits of code? Who is responsible for fixing the problems found? How are fixes distributed? How can I know if I’m safe? What is Red Hat doing about all this?

In this session, Josh will explore the unique aspect of open source software code security, dispel some myths, and discuss how Red Hat helps keep open source software secure. Attendees should leave with a basic understanding of how Red Hat and the open source community work together to keep open source software secure and how Red Hat distributes security updates. Josh will also provide a glimpse into the future of open source security.

Cutting Costs with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Chuck Dubuque — Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat

For many years Red Hat customers have driven costs out of their datacenters by replacing expensive proprietary UNIX systems with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which delivers the security, stability, performance, and scalability of UNIX systems at a fraction of the cost.

While virtualization has helped many organizations reduce capital costs, the widespread adoption of virtualization has been hindered by its high costs – with customers spending $5,000 to $7,000 per server for virtualization.

In this session, Chuck Dubuqe will outline the pricing, packaging, and options of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. He will also demonstrate how Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization brings the classic cost advantages of the open source model to virtualization, allowing customers to drive costs out of their virtualization infrastructures. Chuck will cover additional topics, including:

• Cost comparisons to VMware and Microsoft
• Examples of pricing 100 Windows and 100 Linux guests
• Technical features of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization that reduce hardware costs, such as thin provisioning and memory page sharing

RPM-ifying System Configurations

Paul Waterman — Professional, IT Systems, Motorola, Inc.

How would you like to apply your company’s required security settings, configure authentication, and infrastructure services for a particular site or domain, and tweak all the other non-standard settings needed to set up a server for a particular group or application – all with one command? And how would you like to make sure that if an application gets installed on the system later, all of the settings needed for that application are configured automatically? You can do all of this and more by creating RPMs to control your system configuration.

In this session, Paul Waterman will share how to use RPMs to control system configuration. His presentation draws from more than five years of experience in doing exactly this on hundreds of Motorola systems all over the world.

In this session, which assumes RHCE-equivalent knowledge and at least a basic knowledge of RPM creation, Paul will cover the following topics:

• Controlling system services
• Installing system configuration files, including tips on how to work around problems caused by RPMs that install default configuration files
• Constructing files on the fly in your RPM and how to properly handle validation of those files
• Using triggers to automatically apply settings later when RPMs are updated on or installed onto the system
• How to gracefully handle non-standard local configuration changes
• How to set up modular configurations and handle with interactions between them

Participating in the Fedora/Red Hat Enterprise Linux/FOSS Model

Paul Frields — Fedora Project Leader, Red Hat

Red Hat participates in several open source projects, including Spacewalk, Deltacloud, and the Fedora Project, which is one of the most visible and well-known open source projects. Each of these projects offers customers ways to not only view work in progress, but to contribute to their progress and shape their direction.

In this presentation, Paul W. Frields will discuss how open source is an intrinsic part of engineering at Red Hat. Attendees will learn how Red Hat’s mission of catalyzing communities, and encouraging involvement in the open source process, produces better technology and higher value for Red Hat customers.

Paul will build on and extend his highly-rated 2009 Red Hat Summit session by offering:

• An explanation of the open source model in practical terms, as seen in several current projects led by Red Hat
• Examples of and details about Red Hat’s participation in other important communities that directly benefit customers
• Graphical visualizations of healthy open source communities at work
• Insight into how this model exceeds the capabilities of outmoded, proprietary development
• Opportunities for technical and non-technical contributions

Attendees will leave understanding how direct participation in open source communities has helped Red Hat lead the growth of this model worldwide, and how they can take advantage of the many opportunities it affords.

Red Hat Network Satellite Power User Tips & Tricks

Thomas Cameron — Solution Architect Team Lead, Red Hat

Red Hat Network Satellite is a powerful, flexible systems management solution for deploying, managing, monitoring, and redeploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. Red Hat Network 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 the customer’s servers.

This presentation, given by Red Hat’s Thomas Cameron, explores the most useful Red Hat Network Satellite tips and tricks used by the Red Hat Systems Management subject matter expert team. Presentation attendees will learn how to use Red Hat Network Satellite in advanced, complex, and large-scale environments.

The Open Source Way Beyond Technology: Opensource.com

Jason Hibbets — Project Lead, opensource.com, Red Hat

Come talk about the ways you’re using open source principles — sharing, collaboration, transparency — outside of your IT department. Opensource.com, a community launched by Red Hat earlier this year, offers a space to discuss applying those open source principles beyond technology.

In this session, some of our moderators and contributors, Michael Tiemann, Richard Fontana, Paul Frields, Ruth Suehle, and Jason Hibbets, will discuss the community and how you can get involved. They will also share some of the open source stories we’ve heard since the site launched. During Q&A, we hope you’ll take the chance to share your own story.

Achieving Compliance in an Increasingly Virtual World

Akash Chandrashekar — Solution Architect, Red Hat

Chris Wells — Senior Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat

Security, compliance, and auditing requirements can be unclear and daunting for many organizations. And, complying with security initiatives is getting even more complex as organizations virtualize more of their server infrastructures. The right processes, procedures, and tools are necessary to adhere to compliance requirements from the many security initiatives, including the Federal Information Security Management Act and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. While there are procedures and tools in place, many were designed for systems in a physical world. With the increase in virtualization, will these tools and procedures hold up?

In this discussion, Akash Chandrashekar and Chris Wells, senior product marketing manager, will explore:

• The compliance requirements faced by companies today
• A proposed framework for meeting compliance requirements
• Best practices for leveraging Red Hat Management Solutions to comply with PCI and other compliance initiatives
• How the combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Network Satellite will make it easier to manage your virtualized Red Hat Enterprise Linux infrastructure while also complying with security initiatives

Upon completion of this presentation, attendees will better understand the requirements and best practices for achieving compliance with virtualized systems.



SELinux for Mere Mortals

Thomas Cameron — Solution Architect Team Lead, Red Hat

Daniel Walsh — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

While SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) is an incredibly powerful tool for securing Linux servers, it has historically had a reputation for being difficult to configure. This reputation caused many system administrators to 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.

In this session, Thomas Cameron and Daniel Walsh, principal software engineer at Red Hat, will demonstrate 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. Thomas and Daniel will also highlight real world examples to better demonstrate how to use SELinux.

Linux as a Catalyst for a Smarter Planet

Bob Sutor — Vice President of Open Source and Linux, IBM

Jean Staten Healy — IBM Director Cross IBM Linux Strategy, IBM

Our world is going through a massive transformation. As computers are embedded into everything from cars to power grids, all these devices are then interconnected through the Internet; and, the massive amounts of data are analyzed and can be turned into knowledge and insight. This transformation is turning our world into a smarter planet, and with this knowledge we can reduce cost and waste, improve efficiency and productivity, and raise the quality of everything from our products, to our companies, to our cities, to our world.

Linux is a major catalyst for a smarter planet. Unlike other operating systems, Linux is cross-platform and can run everything from embedded processors, to the routers that power the Internet, to the supercomputers that analyze the data in real time.

In this session, IBM’s Bob Sutor and Jean Staten Healy will discuss the:

• Potential of smarter cities, smarter healthcare, and smarter retailing

• Role of Linux as a technology enabler in these systems
• Business results from governments and companies around the world that are helping transform our smarter planet

Achieving Peak Performance from Red Hat KVM-Based Virtualization

Sanjay Rao — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Mark Wagner — Principal Software Engineer – Performance, Red Hat

In this session, Sanjay Rao and Mark Wagner will demonstrate tips, techniques, and best practices for achieving peak performance using Red Hat’s KVM-based virtualization solutions. They will cover several topics, including:

• Network improvements due to vhost and SR-IOV
• Improvements in the IO stack and scheduler
• Use of huge pages
• CPU emulation

They will support best practices for optimizing investments in server consolidation with test results from actual applications. These results will be compared to bare metal performance, and thus illustrate how the gap between bare metal and virtualization has narrowed.

Clustered Application Services & Filesystems with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Thomas Cameron — Solution Architect Team Lead, Red Hat

Lon Hohberger — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Red Hat’s Thomas Cameron and Lon Hohberger, principal software engineer, will demonstrate high-availability application services and clustered filesystems available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Thomas and Lon will discuss how to set up iSCSI shared storage, including clustered logical volumes, and how to define highly-available application services. Time permitting, use cases of clustered virtual machines and a clustered application (Apache Web server) will also be demonstrated.

3-Tier System Administration

Kurt Keller — UNIX System Specialist, Hilti

When you transition from managing a couple of computers to managing a whole datacenter, more is required than a heap of hardware, a bunch of network cables, and a few geeks. If you don’t want to drown in the number of systems needed to keep up and running, you need much automation, a fair amount of standardization, and a couple of guidelines.

Hilti, a major tools manufacturer for the construction industry, runs all of its mission-critical systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Hilti plans to use the design of its next hardware/operating system bundle as an opportunity to further standardize and automate its installations.

In this session, Kurt Keller will explain how to apply the three-tier programming approach to system administration. He will also discuss how Hilti plans to meet the goals it has set with this approach. Attendees will learn how a structured approach coupled with a few guidelines can help them manage an ever increasing number of systems.

More Kickstart Tips & Tricks

Chip Shabazian — Vice President / Consultant II, Bank of America

At last year’s Red Hat Summit, Chip detailed the tips and tricks that his team learned while developing a global kickstart infrastructure for thousands of distributed builds. This session will continue that discussion as Chip covers similar kickstart tips and tricks and details some new ones. Chip will also present a best practices section that covers lessons learned, and he will offer suggestions on how to best setup your organization to build Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, whether in a single datacenter or in globally-distributed locations.

Attendees will learn how to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems easier and faster while maintaining the flexibility that a good kickstart environment provides.

V2V Moving VMware & Xen Virtual Machines to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization / KVM

Richard Jones — Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Matt Booth — Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

In this session, Rich Jones and Matt Booth, senior software engineers at Red Hat, will introduce the virtualization V2V tool. They will also demonstrate how users can easily convert VMware and Xen virtual machines from the native format into KVM images for use in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Rich and Matt will detail the step-by-step instructions for converting existing virtual machines, and provide an in-depth look into the technologies, including libguestfs, used to build the V2Vtool.

Smiting Functional & Performance Problems with SystemTap

Jason Baron — Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

William Cohen — Performance Tools Engineer, Red Hat

Dominic Duval — Senior Consultant, Red Hat

Linux distributions have gone from software installed by hobbyists on small computer systems to software that powers large, around-the-clock corporate datacenters. Key points in the Linux kernel, including the scheduler and network layer, have been instrumented and tools, including SystemTap, have been developed to simplify the investigation of functional and performance problems for these large, complex systems. Engineers and administrators can instrument running systems using these tools with minimal overhead and without interrupting the operation of the systems. In this session, William Cohen will demonstrate these instrumentation tools to locate the root causes of functional and performance problems.

Virtualization - Consolidation & Performance Data to Help Maximize Server Utilization

Gerrit Huizenga — IBM Linux Technology Center, Cloud Architect, IBM

Pat Byers — IBM Systems x Linux Program Director, IBM

With rising costs, increasing workloads, and demands for 24×7 availability, there is no room in your organization for underutilized or unreliable servers. Your choice in virtualization technology, operating system, and server platforms makes a difference.

In this session, IBM will share the latest data from a number of consolidation and performance benchmarks that illustrate how Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (based on KVM) scales, allowing greater server utilization.

Although x86 servers were not initially designed for virtualization, IBM is changing this equation. Learn how IBM is resetting the standards for x86 servers with Intel Nehalem EX based processors and IBM’s fifth generation of X-Architecture (eX5). With twice the memory capacity, cores, and hard disk drives of previous generations of x86 servers, you can deploy more virtual machines and larger virtual machines, maximizing server utilization.

Part I: Performance Analysis & Tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

D. John (Shak) Shakshober — Senior Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat

Larry Woodman — Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat

This two-hour presentation, which is divided into two sessions, will explore the system performance analysis and tuning necessary to maximize the performance of systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

In this session, Shak and Larry Woodman, consulting software engineer at Red Hat, will share insight into the changes going into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. They will focus on large systems (e.g., the latest x86 hardware platforms, quad/hex cores, >100GB memory, 10 Gb Ethernet) that run the most common applications (e.g., database servers, Internet servers, and various financial applications).

In this two-hour presentation, Shak and Larry will:

• Provide information for determining the system capacity for various hardware resources
• Illustrate how to analyze the system performance using several performance analysis tools and techniques
• Focus on the tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Highlight the Red Hat Enterprise Linux tuning parameters while focusing on how these parameters affect the system running various workloads
• Contrast the Red Hat Enterprise Linux tuning parameters between different versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Offer several examples of performance analysis and tuning for benchmarks and real-world applications

Part II: Performance Analysis & Tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

D. John (Shak) Shakshober — Senior Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat

Larry Woodman — Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat

This two-hour presentation, which is divided into two sessions, will explore the system performance analysis and tuning necessary to maximize the performance of systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

In this session, Shak and Larry Woodman, consulting software engineer at Red Hat, will share insight into the changes going into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. They will focus on large systems (e.g., the latest x86 hardware platforms, quad/hex cores, >100GB memory, 10 Gb Ethernet) that run the most common applications (e.g., database servers, Internet servers, and various financial applications).

In this two-hour presentation, Shak and Larry will:

• Provide information for determining the system capacity for various hardware resources
• Illustrate how to analyze the system performance using several performance analysis tools and techniques
• Focus on the tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Highlight the Red Hat Enterprise Linux tuning parameters while focusing on how these parameters affect the system running various workloads
• Contrast the Red Hat Enterprise Linux tuning parameters between different versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Offer several examples of performance analysis and tuning for benchmarks and real-world applications

Tuning Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Oracle & Oracle RAC

Scott Croft — Linux Consultant, Red Hat

The default configuration for Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems with respect to Oracle and Oracle RAC databases will be adequate for performance. However, adjustments are required as the database grows, more nodes are added to a cluster, or there is an increase in load on the database.

Consideration is needed when providing maximum efficiency and performance for the database, including, network, memory, filesystem layout, and kernel settings. The basic foundation must first be met with the installation, and a consistent base kickstart with all required packages must be established.

In this session Red Hat’s Scott Croft will detail these considerations so attendees understand how to maximize database efficiency and performance. He will discuss installation and kickstart configuration, filesystem layout, network configuration, and kernel adjustments.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging Performance Seminar

Mark Wagner — Principal Software Engineer – Performance, Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging provides many advanced capabilities that enable it to deliver incredible performance. With features ranging from optimizations for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to native RDMA drivers, MRG Messaging can deliver reliable messaging latencies in the low microseconds and throughput in the millions of messages per second. But how can you achieve this performance with MRG from your applications and hardware?

In this session, Mark Wagner will present:

• Guidelines for tuning Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging
• Performance comparisons between different technologies, including 1GB Ethernet, 10GB Ethernet, and Infiniband
• Best practices for using Enterprise MRG in various configurations
• The latest benchmark data across the newest platforms

In addition, Mark will demonstrate open source performance tools for Red Hat Enterprise MRG so that attendees can repeat the benchmark tests on their systems.

Red Hat's Business Systems: Enterprise Systems Built on Open Source

Nick Otto — Senior Director, Information Technology, Red Hat

Red Hat runs its business on a stable, secure, and robust foundation of open source technologies. This session will provide an overview of Red Hat’s internal IT enterprise, focusing mainly on the open source foundation upon which IT delivers business systems to the enterprise. The session will cover products and technologies used to build our open source platforms with discussion of the processes and real world experiences of running Red Hat products in the enterprise.

Red Hat faces a unique challenge with its enterprise systems. Red Hat is the voice of open source and runs a large, global business. The company strives to use our own products and other free and open source products.

As with most IT organizations, Red Hat has to provide systems to the business that serve its needs, pass audits, meet Service Level Agreements, and can be deployed across a highly distributed user community. Red Hat IT delivers systems to, quite arguably, the toughest open source customer — the Red Hat business. This session will focus on the challenges and opportunities faced by Red Hat’s IT Business Systems team as they deliver a portfolio of enterprise applications built on the solid foundation of open source technology.

In this session, Nick Otto will discuss the systems delivery stack from Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization hosts to our JBoss provisioned applications. He will touch on the cost savings, automation, stability, and availability of running a largely open source enterprise. Nick will also include cost / benefit and risk / reward discussions.

Key elements to be reviewed are:

• Overall view of the open source applications deployed at Red Hat
• Overview of our Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments
• Use of JBoss Enterprise Middleware
• Development lifecycle, tools, and use of the agile methodology
• The role of, and integration with, SaaS products
• Preparation for internal cloud deployments

Oracle Databases with NFSv3 in Virtualized Linux Environments

Bikash Roy Choudhury — Solutions Architect, NetApp

Steve Dickson — Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat

In this presentation, Bikash and Steve Dickson, consulting software engineer at Red Hat, will discuss Oracle 11g on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 in a virtualized environment. Oracle in a virtualized environment is making a great impact in test and development setups where server consolidation and storage efficiency is a big requirement. Virtualization over NFSv3 along with 2.6.32 kernel as guest operating system (GOS) further enhances the TCP stack. Virtualizing over NFS along with Linux VMs makes the setup simple to manage and reduces complexity. Oracle on Linux VMs mounted over NFS is robust and scalable for both IO and capacity prospective.

How Fedora Does Early Adoption & Uses Free Software

Michael McGrath — Fedora Infrastructure Lead, Red Hat

The Fedora infrastructure team regularly works with engineers to develop and test new technologies. Fedora uses these technologies to build the operating system it ships as well as some support systems like fedorahosted.org.

In this session, Michael McGrath will lay a foundation for using the free software process for the early adoption of technologies. He will discuss a range of Fedora topics, including:

• Early integration of virtualization technologies in testing and production environments
• Running rawhide in a production environment
• Mitigating risk and working with other Fedora contributors to ensure that they have all the tools necessary to do their jobs
• Best practices and open standards used in Fedora

Interoperability with Windows using CIFS File Sharing with Kerberos Authentication

Jeff Layton — Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

The Linux CIFS client allows administrators to mount shares from Microsoft Windows machines using the server’s preferred protocol. While this support has been available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for some time, support for Kerberos 5 authentication was recently added as a technology preview in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This support allows CIFS to properly authenticate to Microsoft Active Directory.

In this session, Red Hat’s Jeff Layton will detail how to configure CIFS to use krb5 authentication, possible deployment and usage strategies, and problems with the current implementation.

Case Study: Deploying Data Centers with Puppet

Rafael Brito — Lead Analyst, NYSE Euronext

Michael DeHaan — Product Manager, Puppet Labs

NYSE Euronext’s System Architecture and Engineering (SAE) team has conceived a solution for deploying two state-of-the-art datacenters for the production environment. The solution uses Puppet in conjunction with Red Hat’s kickstart technology and Red Hat Network Satellite to automate server deployments from the base operating system installation to very final application configuration.

In this session, Rafael Brito and Michael DeHaan, product manager at Puppet Labs, will cover:

• Brief, introductory information about Puppet as an automation tool, language, and common configuration framework
• Using Red Hat’s kickstart technology to build a lean operating system install, including Red Hat Network Satellite registration and Puppet client installation
• The three-layer configuration approach: the base operating system, zone (or environment), and application
• An overview of the Puppet modules to configure the base operating system standardized across corporation
• An overview of the Puppet modules that configure a server to the zone (or environment)
• An example of node definition manifest that includes networking configuration
• An example of an application configuration using the Puppet modules that inherit and override a base operating system configuration
• Challenges of the proposed method
• How to keep the Puppet manifests up-to-date for agile deployments without giving up control

Extending Systems Management Using the Red Hat Network Satellite API

Justin Sherrill — Software Engineer, Red Hat

Vinny Valdez — Senior Enterprise Architect, Red Hat

Ever heard about the Red Hat Network Satellite API? Familiar with Python or Perl? Wish you could automate Red Hat Network Satellite tasks in your organization, or integrate it with other software?

In this session, Red Hat’s Justin Sherrill and Vinny Valdez will introduce the basics, walk through API examples, and explore the various methods used in the Red Hat Network Satellite API. They will conclude with live examples that build up to a script to perform various functions culminating in a live demonstration. Justin and Vinny will focus this session on using Python and Perl to make API calls to Red Hat Network Satellite, (though Java works as well). At the conclusion of this session, attendees will be able to use the Red Hat Network API documentation to write Python and Perl scripts to automate Red Hat Network Satellite tasks.

NFS Version 4 Features & Benefits

Steve Dickson — Consulting Software Engineer, Red Hat

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, the Network Filesystem (NFS) will be, by default, using a new protocol that will allow for better performance and more network environmental friendliness. In this session, Steve Dickson will discuss this new protocol and future protocol enhancements.

Strategies for Successfully Planning UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Migrations

Alex Heublein — Director, Solutions & Strategy – Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat

Aleksandr Brezhnev — Managing Principal Enterprise Architect, Red Hat

As economic factors continue to drive enterprises to migrate from expensive proprietary UNIX systems to inexpensive Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based systems, it is important to understand what separates successful enterprise migrations from ones that fail to meet expectations. Red Hat Consulting has found, after many years of migrations, that one common factor associated with migration success is strategic planning. Too many organizations embark on UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux migrations without a proper plan in place and the results are almost always suboptimal.

The purpose of this session is to introduce the Red Hat UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Strategic Migration Planning methodology, which is designed to help organizations create a comprehensive strategic migration plan for medium to large-scale migrations. In this session, Alex Heublein and Aleksandr Brezhnev, managing principal enterprise architect at Red Hat, will explore not only the technical challenges involved in a these migrations, but also the organizational, readiness, and risk factors that can derail an otherwise properly planned migration.

Utilizing Red Hat Management Solutions to Enable PCI Compliance: A Customer Perspective

Daniel Kinon — Senior Linux Systems Administrator, Choice Hotels

Akash Chandrashekar — Solution Architect, Red Hat

This session will teach attendees how to use Red Hat Network Satellite to its fullest. Join Daniel Kinon and Akash Chandrashekar, solution architect at Red Hat, as they answer a range of Red Hat Network Satellite questions, including:

• How do I organize my patch cycles into groups?
• Can I delegate patching?
• How do I verify that the various patch cycles have been completed?
• Can Red Hat Network Satellite integrate into my ticketing system?
• Can I generate patching reports?
• What more can Red Hat Network Satellite do for me?

Daniel and Akash will also discuss best practices for leveraging the very powerful Red Hat Network Satellite API.

Where Does the Energy Go?

Ulrich Drepper — Consulting Engineer, Red Hat

Energy use is a major factor in today’s datacenters and enterprises. Every computer consumes a significant amount of electric power and produces heat, which often has to be battled with air conditioning. While hardware manufacturers promise technologies to reduce energy consumption, good decisions cannot be made without understanding what expected savings are reasonable.

In this session, Ulrich Drepper will:

• Provide an overview of the energies involved in running today’s systems
• Profile various subsystems
• Explain and measure the energy saving mechanism provided by today’s hardware

Attendees will leave this session with an understanding of the scope of the energy problem and the ability to make better energy-saving decisions.

Kernel Virtualization Optimizations for KVM

Rik van Riel — Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

KVM is an integral part of the Linux kernel. This integration allows for numerous virtualization optimizations that help improve the performance of virtual machines.

In this presentation, attendees will learn about the optimizations that have been implemented for KVM and how these optimizations avoid the performance issues inherent with traditional virtualization approaches. Besides explaining the optimizations and the virtualization side effects that make them necessary, Rik will also cover some KVM performance hints for system administrators.

Storage Reconfiguration with Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Ian Pilcher — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat

Tom Coughlan — Senior Engineering Manager for Storage Development, Red Hat

The Linux storage sub-system is capable of extensive reconfiguration while the operating system is running. In most cases, this reconfiguration can be done while applications continue to do I/O to unaffected parts of the system. Users can add or remove disks and enlarge or shrink block devices (LUNs), Volume Groups, and Logical Volumes. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization also has powerful guest storage management features.

In this session, Red Hat’s Ian Pilcher and Tom Coughlan will describe how to make changes to your Red Hat Enterprise Linux system’s storage configuration while the system is running. They will also describe how to use thin provisioning, templates, and snapshots to ease provisioning and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization guests.

Simplifying Parallel Programming

Ulrich Drepper — Consulting Engineer, Red Hat

Sequential programming is already a complicated and error-prone task. To take advantage of today’s computers, it is necessary to parallelize code. Otherwise you cannot take advantage of the many cores available on today’s processors. However, parallelizing code further complicates programming and thinking through multiple concurrent execution paths does not come natural. In addition, parallel programming introduces completely new classes of errors that programmers can introduce into their code.

Red Hat and its partners have been working on technologies to make parallel programming easier. In this session, Ulrich Drepper will introduce techniques available for C and especially C++ programmers. He will also explain the improvements to the compiler and runtime that will be available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Some knowledge of and C and/or C++ is required.

Migrating to KVM Virtualization

George Hacker — Global Learning Services Curriculum Manager, Red Hat

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is the next generation of enterprise-ready virtualization technology that was introduced in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 in September 2009 and in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio in November 2009. KVM  is high-performance virtualization technology that takes advantage of Intel and AMD hardware virtualization extensions.

In this session, George Hacker will introduce attendees to virtualization with KVM. A hands-on lab will provide attendees with an opportunity to explore and work with KVM in a non-production environment.

Session attendees will:

• Gain a basic understanding of how KVM works
• Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux tools to manage KVM guests
• Convert a Xen guest to a KVM guest

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Networking

Florian Brand — Chief Instructor EMEA, Red Hat

Networking is the core functionality of every modern server system. In this session, Florian Brand will explore the important networking aspects of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, which include:

• Network Manager (including command line mode)

• Manual interface configuration

• Name resolution

• Bridging

• Routing

• Network bonding (IEEE 802.3ad)

• VLAN tagging (IEEE 802.1q)

Florian will also discuss the special implications of virtualization in this session, which will be delivered in a series of interactive exercises. Upon completion, attendees should understand the network configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.   Attendees should have a basic understanding of command line administration before attending this session.

SELinux Management

Forrest Taylor — Global Learning Services Project Manager, Red Hat

SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) was introduced to the open source world at the end of 2000 and was included in the 2.6.0-test3 kernel and Fedora Core 2. Even though SELinux has been available for nearly a decade, many system administrators still disable it because they do not understand its concepts or how to troubleshoot and fix its issues.

In this session, Forrest Taylor will explain the basic concepts of SELinux, including its history and design goals. Forrest will cover the following basic SELinux skills:

• Log analysis

• Troubleshooting Apache and Samba issues

• Documentation

• GUI and command-line tools (including system-config-selinux, setenforce, setsebool, and semanage)

Following this session, attendees should be able to successfully enable SELinux and successfully troubleshoot and resolve minor SELinux issues.

Begin Programming Your Red Hat Network Satellite Server

George Hacker — Global Learning Services Curriculum Manager, Red Hat

Red Hat Network Satellite is a powerful, flexible systems management platform for deploying and managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. Its underlying database stores software profile, hardware profile, event history, and other systems configuration information about the registered systems it manages.

Red Hat provides a powerful application programming interface (API) that allows a system administrator or programmer to tap the wealth of information stored in Red Hat Network Satellite Server.

In this session, George Hacker will introduce attendees to the world of Red Hat Network Satellite API programming. He will cover basic API practices and highlight some sample programs.

Session attendees will learn how to:

• Write simple Red Hat Network Satellite API programs

• Perform queries and write reports using Red Hat Network Satellite API methods

• Use Red Hat Network Satellite API methods for system administration

Programming Red Hat Network API scripts is easier than you might think. Join this session and learn how to harness the power of Red Hat Network Satellite to automate tasks, produce useful reports, and collect custom data.

Securing DNS by Deploying DNSSEC

Steven Bonneville — Manager, Global Learning Services, Red Hat

DNS is one of the most critical services for the proper functioning of the Internet as it directs network clients to appropriate servers by acting as a distributed directory service. However, standard DNS suffers from a number of serious vulnerabilities, allowing attackers to forge information and subvert and hijack control of DNS information. The long-term fix for many of these problems is to deploy the emerging DNSSEC technology to protect the integrity and authenticity of DNS information. DNSSEC is expected to enter production in the root zone in July of 2010.

In this session, Steven Bonneville will provide a brief overview of DNSSEC operation. He will explain how to convert an existing DNS zone to use DNSSEC, and how to deploy that zone in production using the version of BIND in upcoming versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  This session includes a hands-on lab that will give attendees the opportunity to work through this process with an example DNS zone. Attendees will understand how to implement DNSSEC-secured zones at the end of this session.

Attendees are expected to have prior experience with BIND operations at the level of competency required to pass the RHCE exam (basic configuration of BIND master/slave service, configuration of “standard” DNS zone files with typical resource records).