Sessions & Labs
Sessions:
Application and platform infrastructure
This track features the developers who write the code, the solution architects who work in the field, and the product managers who contribute to product direction. Example topics include: technology overviews, roadmaps, and deep dives, deployment techniques, performance optimization, and system management. Attendees will learn how to increase performance and scalability, implement security policies, meet service level agreements, and more effectively manage deployments.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Performance
Mark Wagner — Senior Principal Engineer, Red Hat
In this session that covers the performance and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Mark Wagner will:
- Demonstrate how to take advantage of the key performance areas of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
- Review data and tuning information that was discovered in Red Hat’s performance lab
- Discuss Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Storage integration
- Review techniques for migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Location: Room 304
Topics: GlusterFS, oVirt, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Storage, Scalability
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application and platform infrastructure | Thursday, June 13 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 3.0 / 5.0 |
Community and partner ecosystem
This track showcases community leaders and their innovative upstream work, as well as the certified commercial solutions that the Red Hat partner ecosystem brings to market. Attendees will also gain a better understanding of the value of a Red Hat subscription and learn how to extract the maximum value from their investments.
Real World Perspectives: Open Source Enablement
Host:
Guy Martin — Managing Principal Architect, Red Hat
This panel, moderated by Guy Martin, will feature some of the most influential leaders in the technology industry. Attendees will learn:
- Real-world use cases for deploying open source software internally and in products that are developed for customers
- Exactly how Red Hat’s partners strategically adopt open source software
- Governance processes for incorporating open source software into products
- Best practices for using open source components across multiple product lines
- Approaches to community participation
- How to use and contribute to open source software
Location: Room 209
Topics: Fedora, GlusterFS, Java development, JBoss Community projects, OpenShift Origin, oVirt, Red Hat Cloud, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and partner ecosystem | Wednesday, June 12 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 2.0 / 5.0 |
Community Catalysts: The Value of Open Source Community Development
Dave Neary — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Red Hat products are built on open source software. Unlike proprietery software, open source software provides the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute the code, giving customers an opportunity to engage in the product development process and preview future Red Hat products.
In this session, Dave Neary will discuss community projects that Red Hat has sponsored and participated in, including oVirt, OpenStack, JBoss Application Server, LibreOffice, GNOME, and Fedora. Attendees will:
- Discover the benefits of using community-developed software and engaging with upstream communities
- Learn about how French services company AlterWay built a public cloud offering on oVirt
- Preview upcoming Red Hat product features
- Learn about how to influence the development of future features by working directly with the developers
Location: Room 209
Topics: Cloud deployment, Cost savings, Fedora, GlusterFS, Java development, JBoss Community projects, OpenShift Origin, OpenStack, oVirt
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and partner ecosystem | Wednesday, June 12 | 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm | 1.0 / 5.0 |
GlusterFS Internals & Roadmap
Vijay Bellur — Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Jeff Darcy — Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
John Mark Walker — Director of Communities, Red Hat
GlusterFS is a distributed file system that can scale to several petabytes, runs on commodity hardware, and aggregates storage capacity from various servers. In this session, Jeff Darcy, Vijay Bellur, and John Walker will preview new features in GlusterFS 3.4 and provide the project’s roadmap, discussing future features. In addition, they will detail the:
- GlusterFS translator framework
- Process for developing new translators
- Key algorithms used.
- Recent developments, including syncop framework, libgfapi, and glupy
Location: Room 209
Topics: Big data, Clustering, Fedora, GlusterFS, oVirt, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and partner ecosystem | Thursday, June 13 | 10:40 am - 11:40 am | 4.0 / 5.0 |
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Built on FlexPod & NetApp Integration
Jon Benedict — Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp
Chris Morrissey — Software Engineer, NetApp
Karthik Nagalingam — Reference Architect, NetApp
Ian Pilcher — Senior Solution Architect, Red Hat
Greg Pryzby — Principal Consultant, Red Hat
In this session, Jon Benedict, Karthik Nagalingam, and Ian Pilcher will provide a deep dive into Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization built on FlexPod. The FlexPod datacenter solution is a pre-validated design that provides predictable scaling and performance. Jon, Karthik, and Ian will explain what this means for admins, engineers, and IT decision makers, highlighting the benefits, the design, performance characteristics, and sizing in the context of virtualizing Oracle 11g RAC.
In addition, Jon and Chris Morrissey will demonstrate the Virtual Storage Console (VSC) plug-in for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. This integrated tool takes advantage of the plug-in framework available with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2 and allows IT administrators to discover and provision NetApp storage directly from Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Additonally, VSC for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization also allows NFS-based virtual machines to be rapidly cloned from the storage array.
Location: Room 209
Topics: Clustering, Flexibility, Integration, Manageability, oVirt, Performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Reliability, Scalability, Security
| Track | Date | Time | Technical Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and partner ecosystem | Thursday, June 13 | 4:50 pm - 5:50 pm | 2.0 / 5.0 |