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TRAINING PROGRAM

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To meet your needs, the training program at LISA '09 provides in-depth, immediately useful training in the latest techniques, effective tools, and best strategies. The program offers 6 days of tutorials, with 50 full- and half-day sessions to choose from.

LISA tutorials survey the topic, then dive into the specifics of what to do and how to do it. Instructors are well-known experts in their fields, selected for their ability to teach complex subjects. Attend tutorials at LISA '09 and take valuable skills back to your company or organization. New topics are woven in with old favorites to create the most comprehensive training program to date. Register now to guarantee your first choice—seating is limited.

Note: Training materials will be provided to you on a 2GB USB drive. If you'd like to access them during your class, please remember to bring a laptop. If you need printed materials for your class, please select the option to receive them on the registration form.


Virtualization
Solaris

Back for 2009! Training Series on Virtualization and Solaris

LISA is again offering two series of classes focusing on some of the most important topics you'll encounter: virtualization and Solaris. Follow the icons throughout the full training descriptions and complete the series. Click here for more information about these special tracks.

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If you're not happy, we're not happy. If you feel a tutorial does not meet the high standards you have come to expect from USENIX, let us know by the first break and we will change you to any other available tutorial immediately.

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

USENIX provides Continuing Education Units for a small additional administrative fee. The CEU is a nationally recognized standard unit of measure for continuing education and training and is used by thousands of organizations.
    Each full-day tutorial qualifies for 0.6 CEUs. You can request CEU credit by completing the CEU section on the registration form. USENIX provides a certificate for each attendee taking a tutorial for CEU credit and maintains transcripts for all CEU students. CEUs are not the same as college credits. Consult your employer or school to determine their applicability.

Sunday, November 1, 2009    
 Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
S1  
Harborside
Ballroom Salon A
 James Mauro Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace): Finding the Light Where There Was Only Darkness
S2
Harborside
Ballroom Salon B
 John Rouillard NEW! Log Analysis with the Simple Event Correlator (SEC) (Hands-on)
S3
Harborside
Ballroom Salon D
 Æleen Frisch Administering Linux in Production Environments
S4 
Essex A & B
 Marc Staveley System and Network Performance Tuning
S5 
Dover A & B
 David J. Malan NEW! Replacing Real Servers with Virtual Machines Using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) (Hands-on)
S6
Laurel A & B
 Bruce Potter NEW! Understanding Systems Through Network Observation
S7
Laurel C & D
 Maurita Plouff NEW! Management Skills, Or, Don't Panic!
Monday, November 2, 2009    
 Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
M1  
Laurel A & B
 James Mauro Solaris 10 Performance, Observability, and Debugging
M2
Laurel C & D
 Alan Robertson Configuring and Deploying Linux-HA
M3
Dover A & B
 D. Brent Chapman NEW! Automating Network Configuration and Management
M4 
Essex A & B
 Jimmy Lin NEW! Care and Feeding of Hadoop Clusters
M5 
Harborside
Ballroom Salon A
 Richard Elling NEW! ZFS: A Filesystem for Modern Hardware
 Half Day Morning (9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    
M6
Harborside
Ballroom Salon B
 Tobias Oetiker RRDtool First Steps
M8
Harborside
Ballroom Salon E
 Rik Farrow Working with SELinux
 Half Day Afternoon (1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
M9
Harborside
Ballroom Salon B
 Tobias Oetiker RRDtool Advanced Topics
M10
Harborside
Ballroom Salon D
 Rudi Van Drunen NEW! IPv6: An Introduction
M11
Harborside
Ballroom Salon E
 David Nalley NEW! Packaging for Sysadmins
Tuesday, November 3, 2009    
 Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
T1  
Laurel C & D
 John Arrasjid and Rupen Sheth NEW! Virtualization with VMware vSphere 4.0: The Fundamentals
T2
Harborside
Ballroom Salon E
 Mark Burgess NEW! Configuration Management Solutions with Cfengine 3
T3
Dover C
David Rhoades and Steve Pinkham NEW! Remote Security Testing of Web 2.0 Applications (Hands-on)
 Half Day Morning (9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    
T4 
Essex A & B
Peter Baer Galvin and Marc Staveley Solaris 10 Administration Workshop 1: Administration (Hands-on)
T5
Harborside
Ballroom Salon A
Thomas A. Limoncelli NEW! Time Management for System Administrators: A New Approach
T6
Harborside
Ballroom Salon B
David N. Blank-Edelman NEW! Automating System Administration with Perl, Part One
T7
Harborside
Ballroom Salon D
Jacob Farmer Updated for 2009! Disk-to-Disk Backup and Eliminating Backup System Bottlenecks
T8
Kent C
Tobias Oetiker NEW! Bringing Your Web Pages to Life with jQuery
T9
Dover A & B
Mike Ciavarella Advanced Shell Programming
 Half Day Afternoon (1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
T10  
Essex A & B
Peter Baer Galvin and Marc Staveley Solaris 10 Administration Workshop 2: Virtualization (Hands-on)
T11
Harborside
Ballroom Salon A
Thomas A. Limoncelli NEW! Design Patterns for System Administrators
T12
Harborside
Ballroom Salon B
David N. Blank-Edelman NEW! Automating System Administration with Perl, Part Two
T13
Harborside
Ballroom Salon D
Jacob Farmer Updated for 2009! Next-Generation Storage Networking
T15
Dover A & B
Mike Ciavarella Documentation Techniques for Sysadmins
Wednesday, November 4, 2009    
 Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
W1  
Laurel C & D
John Arrasjid and Rupen Sheth NEW! Virtualization with VMware vSphere 4.0: Advanced Topics
W2
Laurel A & B
Steve Holden Practical Python for System Administrators
 Half Day Morning (9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    
W3  
Dover C
Peter Baer Galvin and Marc Staveley Solaris 10 Administration Workshop 3: File Systems (Hands-on)
W4
Kent A, B, & C
Theodore Ts'o NEW! Linux Performance Tuning
W5
Dover A & B
David N. Blank-Edelman Over the Edge System Administration, Volume 1
 Half Day Afternoon (1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
W6  
Dover C
Peter Baer Galvin and Marc Staveley Solaris 10 Administration Workshop 4: Security (Hands-on)
W7
Kent A, B, & C
Theodore Ts'o Recovering from Linux Hard Drive Disasters
W8
Dover A & B
David N. Blank-Edelman Over the Edge System Administration, Volume 2
Thursday, November 5, 2009    
 Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
R2 
Dover A & B
Richard McDougall NEW! VMware ESX Performance and Tuning
 Half Day Morning (9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    
R3
Laurel A, B, & C
Æleen Frisch NEW! Take a Gulp from the Sysadmin Automation Firehose
R4
Harborside D
Gerald Carter Wireshark and the Art of Debugging Networks
 Half Day Afternoon (1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
R5  
Laurel A, B, & C
Gerald Carter NEW! Have a Drink from the Network Services Firehose
R6
Harborside D
John Sellens Nagios: Advanced Topics
Friday, November 6, 2009    
 Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
F1  
Kent A & B
Jeanna Matthews and Zach Shepherd Introduction to the Open Source Xen Hypervisor
F3
Laurel A, B, & C
Lee Damon Issues in Infrastructure Design
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