Red Hat Performance Tuning: Linux in Physical, Virtual and Cloud

Audience for this course

• Senior Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resource utilization through performance tuning

Prerequisites for this course

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE^®) certification or equivalent experience
• Candidates who have not earned their RHCE can confirm they have the correct skills by passing our online skills assessment

Outline for this course

• Introduction to performance tuning
  • Understand the basic principles of performance tuning and analysis.
• Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data
  • Gain proficiency using basic analysis tools and evaluating data.
• General tuning
  • Learn basic tuning theory and mechanisms used to tune the system.
• Limiting resource usage
  • Allocate resources for best performance by limiting resource usage.
• Hardware profiling
  • Understand and analyze hardware.
• Software profiling
  • Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications.
• Using SystemTap
  • Use systemtap for profiling software.
• Small file tuning
  • Tune a server for a workload involving frequent reads and writes of small files.
• Large memory workload tuning
  • Understand memory management and tuning.
• Tuning for a CPU-intensive workload
  • Understand tuning for CPU-bound applications.
• File server tuning
  • Understand storage and network tuning in the context of a file server application.
• Database server tuning
  • Tune memory and network performance using a database application as an example.
• Power usage tuning
  • Tune systems with power consumption in mind.
• Virtualization tuning
  • Tune ‘host’ and ‘guest’ for efficient virtualization.
• Red Hat Performance Tuning Comprehensive Review
  • Do a comprehensive overview of the course.