Masters Education Program
PARSEC’s Masters Education Program (MEP) isn't your typical online technical seminar.
What if each month you could be a part of a seminar that is geared towards creating best practices for legacy and state-of-art systems with topics such as OpenVMS Crash-Dump Analysis or IP Filtering on UNIX? Would it impress your boss if you learned new methods to ensure current relevance and utility for your company? Would it elevate your job performance, or help you solve a vexing problem? If so, save your seat now in PARSEC's next MEP!
Every month you will learn information inspired by actual case studies that you can apply on-the-spot. We pack technical and practical material into a comfortable 2 hour online session that tops off with ample time for Q&A and valued feedback. Bonus! You get exclusive access to download our extensive documentation at the time of each seminar. Here's a sample list of some of our past seminars:
- Road Trip! VMS Bootcamp 2016 Conference Report
- Bare-Metal System Recovery
- Cleaning Out the Cruft on OpenVMS
- Systemd and Other Major Changes in Redhat Linux 7
- Monitoring OpenVMS with Open-Source SNMP Tools
- OpenVMS Performance Tools
- IP Filtering on Unix
As a perk of being a much appreciated PARSEC support customer, each session is free. If your company is not yet benefiting from PARSEC’s support, you can join any MEP for a modest cost per person. Furthermore, if you sign up for a telephone support contract with us, within 30 days of attending the MEP, we will credit the seminar cost to your support invoice. For as long as you’re a support customer, you will not only enjoy the peace of mind in knowing you’re support needs are covered, but future seminars will be free as well.
OpenVMS Shadowing
Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS is also referred to as Host-Based Volume Shadowing (HBVS), often referred to as just Shadowing, allows you to mirror disks together in a RAID-1. Those disks can be SCSI disks on the same machine, disks on separate controllers, or even disks on separate machines in the same cluster. This collection of disks allows you better access to the data on the disks and can be used to increase disk performance in multi-site locations.
Upon completion of this MEP, you should be able to:
- Create a shadow set.
- Be able to manage the shadow set.
- Take advantage of the extra features such as the bitmaps and mini-copy.
- Be able to boot directly into a shadow set.
- List some of the advantages of HBVS instead of controller based RAID-1.
This training session is scheduled - 1:00pm MDT. We link to www.worldtimeserver.com to convert to your local time. Note that this is planned as a 2 hour presentation to provide sufficient time to cover all of the topics. To register or to ask any questions, please contact us via e-mail to experts@parsec.com or fill out the inquiry page.
Lifecycle and Dates for Linux and OpenVMS
Much has changed since the halcyon days of the 1990's. Many Unix vendors have died or been severely reduced. Linux has changed immensely and rules the roost where Unix once perched. BSD stands tall and holds the faith for Unix purists. VMS found new ownership and is pushing into new frontiers. Support models and lifecycles have shifted and become much more complex for many vendors. Let's explore some of the notable future dates and states that we'll all be facing while taking quick stock of the most recent milestones.
1.0 Introduction
2.0 How "Support" has Shifted
3.0 Unix Landscape Changes
3.1 Dead Players
3.2 AIX Lifecycle
3.3 Solaris Lifecycle
3.4 HP-UX's Uncertain Future and Lifecycle
4.0 VMS Landscape Changes
4.1 VSI OpenVMS Lifecycle for X86, Integrity, and Alpha
5.0 Linux Changes and Current State
5.1 Popular Linux Distros have Shifted
5.2 Current Red Hat support lifecycle for RHEL
5.3 SuSE's Linux Lifecycle
5.4 Ubuntu Linux Lifecycle
6.0 Red Letter Days Coming Up for Linux & Unix
7.0 Red Letter Days Coming Up for OpenVMS
8.0 Potential Changes for All LifeCycles
8.1 Troubled & Endangered Vendors
8.2 VSI Future State Uncertainty
8.3 Artificial Intelligence Impact
9.0 Conclusion
This training session is scheduled - 1:00pm MDT. We link to www.worldtimeserver.com to convert to your local time. Note that this is planned as a 2 hour presentation to provide sufficient time to cover all of the topics. To register or to ask any questions, please contact us via e-mail to experts@parsec.com or fill out the inquiry page.
Worry-Free Delivery
PARSEC Group uses Zoom to deliver our e-Learning to our customers. Zoom provides several options for connecting to the class.
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Audio is provided via Voice over IP (VoIP) and requires speakers, or a USB headset.
