The Facebook event listing is now up at:<br>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=98685520537">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=98685520537</a><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:00 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill@wards.net">bill@wards.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">PENINSULA LINUX USERS' GROUP (PenLUG) PRESENTS:<br>
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|Date: |Thursday, December 11th, 2008 |<br>
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|Time: |meeting 7:00 - 9:00 PM, social/networking until 10 PM|<br>
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| |Bayshore Technology Park |<br>
|Location:|1300 Island Drive |<br>
| |Redwood City, CA 94065 |<br>
| |Suite 106 - Training Room |<br>
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|RSVP: |Facebook: (coming soon) |<br>
| |or mail <a href="mailto:rsvp@penlug.org">rsvp@penlug.org</a> |<br>
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Xen: A View from the Trenches<br>
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This talk is a light overview of virtualization technologies with a more<br>
in-depth look at Xen, given by and targeted towards the hands-on system<br>
administrator. Topics will include:<br>
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* Virtualization and consolidation: Buzz aside, what are my choices for<br>
consolidation, and what are the trade offs between the different<br>
virtualization technologies, and consolidating without virtualization?<br>
* Virtualization and server management: What tools does virtualization<br>
enable that can make the sysadmin's job easier? What about<br>
virtualization can make the sysadmin's job harder? How many of these<br>
benefits can I get without shared storage? If I do have shared<br>
storage, what added benefits can virtualization give me?<br>
* Overview of the Xen hypervisor and device architecture: What does the<br>
sysadmin need to know, and how to get good I/O performance out of a<br>
virtualizedsystem?<br>
* Protecting and fairly allocating resources: How to give people what<br>
they are paying for? We will go over the sysadmin-level details of<br>
fairly allocating RAM, CPU time, network bandwidth, and disk<br>
bandwidth, in environments where users are not always cooperative, and<br>
where some virtual servers should be allocated more resources than<br>
others.<br>
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Luke S. Crawford<br>
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Luke Crawford has been working with Xen in a production environment since<br>
late '05, renting virtual private servers to people from all over the<br>
Internet at Prgmr.com.<br>
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He has also spent significant time with larger corporations, helping to<br>
virtualized the corporate environment. Luke and Chris Takemura are nearing<br>
completion of "The Book of Xen" to be published by no-starch press in<br>
early 2009.<br>
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RSVP<br>
<br>
Although it is not required, we like to have an idea of how many<br>
people to expect, so if possible please email <a href="mailto:rsvp@penlug.org">rsvp@penlug.org</a> if you<br>
are planning to attend.<br>
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GETTING THERE<br>
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For information on getting to the meeting, please see:<br>
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1300+Island+Drive,+Redwood+City,+CA" target="_blank">http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1300+Island+Drive,+Redwood+City,+CA</a><br>
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Traffic on 101 can be pretty bad in the evening, so we encourage you<br>
to check traffic conditions before driving by dialing 5-1-1 on your<br>
phone or visiting <a href="http://www.511.org" target="_blank">www.511.org</a>, and if possible to take public transit<br>
(best bet: bicycle via Caltrain) or carpool to this meeting.<br>
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MORE INFORMATION<br>
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See <a href="http://www.penlug.org" target="_blank">www.penlug.org</a> for more information.<br>
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