"Is your database being held hostage by poor OS performance?"

ITGAIN at the IDUG in Prague will present the latest Speedgain component "OS Monitoring for DB2 Server". Armed with Speedgain’s detailed operating system information the DBA will be able to analyze operating system performance.

And it only gets better. With the new Speedgain feature one can correlate both operating system and database performance metrics for the same time sequence. The ongoing question, "Do I have a problem with my server or the database?”, will now be answered.

The extended OS Monitoring provides a complete picture of the whole system and is the basis for an integrated root cause analysis.  Why not save valuable DBA time and resources by immediately identifying that poor SQL performance is not a DBA issue? Let the new Speedgain component “OS Monitoring for DB2 Server“ fill the performance reporting gap for you!

Thanks for your participation and active feedback. You find the recorded webinar stream and the slides on the right hand side. For any questions regarding the presentation feel free to contact Norbert directly at norbert.munkel@itgain.de.

The following topics were discussed:

• Why should I do Benchmarks?
• Overview of existing benchmark suites (TPC-C, TPC-H, other)
• Why the big benchmark-suites don’t meet DBA's everyday needs?
• Defining database workloads for benchmarking
• Getting to the data
• Eliminating side effects
• Demo of ITGAIN benchmark approach (Linux and Windows)

ITGAIN is ready to deliver the new version of Speedgain for DB2
including IWH 1.0. The new Version stands out for it's completely
redesigned user interface and new algorithms in processing analyses.

New functions are:

The Information Warehouse IWH in version 1.0 let you show reports
of vital values in the defined monitoring timeframe.

ITGAIN thanks you for participating the webniar "SQL Workload Monitoring
and Tuning" on 18th Januar 2011.

The active and international participation encourages us to collect more topics around DB2 in order to prepare a follow up session. We will announce this follow up in advance here.

Right hand you find the discussed scripts and programs for download.
Also you find the recording webinar.

Specialists from ITGAIN and the IBM Labs in Toronto, Dublin, and Böblingen meet for a 3-day workshop to evaluate the capability of Speedgain to monitor IBM DB2 pureScale.

The team set up a new pureScale cluster and produced a high workload using the ITGAIN benchmark utilities. The goal was to find the perfect setup for DB2 pureScale testing for scalability and pureScale monitoring with Speedgain. Additional pureScale monitoring functionalty for future Speedgain releases was also discussed.

Monitor and tune your databases based on real time and historical performance values gathered from Snapshot monitoring and DB2PD.

Florian Boldt, ITGAIN, Product Manager
Phil Gunning, Gunning Technology Solutions, Principal Consultant

Download webinar pdf here...