Red Hat Performance Tuning: Linux in Physical, Virtual and Cloud
Course code
RH442 (RHEL8)
Duration
4 Days, 32 Acad. Hours
Course Overview
Objectives
Prerequisites
Course Outline
Course Overview
Course Overview
This course discusses system architecture with emphasis on:
- Understanding the implications on system performance
- Methods for testing the effects of performance adjustments
- Open source benchmarking utilities
- Methods for analyzing system and networking performance
- Tuning configurations for specific application loads
This course can also help you prepare for the Red Hat Certified Specialist in Linux Performance Tuning exam (EX442)
Objectives
Course content summary
- Tuning for use-case scenarios (for example, HPC, large memory, database, and file server)
- Applying tuning profiles with tuned
- Tuning virtual machines (primarily guest, but host is discussed)
- Tuning memory and caches
- Tuning CPU and memory utilization using cgroups (integrated in systemd)
- Gathering performance metrics and other data for tuning purposes
Prerequisites
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
Course Outline
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.
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Red Hat Performance Tuning: Linux in Physical, Virtual and Cloud
Course code:
RH442 (RHEL8)
Duration:
4 Days, 32 Acad. Hours
