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Red Hat Performance Tuning: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud (RH442)

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Description

As a senior Linux® system administrator, this course will help you master the methodology of performance tuning. You will be introduced to system architecture with an emphasis on understanding its implications on system performance, performance adjustments, open source benchmarking utilities, networking performance, and tuning configurations for specific server use cases and workloads. This course is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 8.

Course Overview

Course Objective

Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills: Describe how key Linux subsystems work Interact with applications Determine which tuning adjustments are relevant in different situation

Who Should Attend

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

Introduction to performance tuning Lesson Id 1

Introduction to performance tuning

Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data Lesson Id 2

Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data

General tuning Lesson Id 3

General tuning

Limiting resource usage Lesson Id 4

Limiting resource usage

Hardware profiling Lesson Id 5

Hardware profiling

Small file tuning Lesson Id 8

Small file tuning

Large memory workload tuning Lesson Id 9

Large memory workload tuning

Tuning for a CPU-intensive workload Lesson Id 10

Tuning for a CPU-intensive workload

File server tuning Lesson Id 11

File server tuning

Database server tuning Lesson Id 12

Database server tuning

Power usage tuning Lesson Id 13

Power usage tuning

Virtualization tuning Lesson Id 14

Virtualization tuning

Software profiling Lesson Id 6

Software profiling

Using SystemTap Lesson Id 7

Using SystemTap

Lesson Id	Title	Description
1	Introduction to performance tuning	Understand the basic principles of performance tuning and analysis.
2	Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data	Gain proficiency in using basic analysis tools and in evaluating data.
3	General tuning	Learn basic tuning theory and mechanisms used to tune the system.
4	Limiting resource usage	Allocate resources for best performance by limiting resource usage.
5	Hardware profiling	Understand and analyze hardware.
8	Small file tuning	Tune a server for a workload involving frequent reads and writes of small files.
9	Large memory workload tuning	Understand memory management and tuning.
10	Tuning for a CPU-intensive workload	Understand tuning for CPU-bound applications.
11	File server tuning	Understand storage and network tuning in the context of a file server application.
12	Database server tuning	Tune memory and network performance using a database application as an example.
13	Power usage tuning	Tune systems with power consumption in mind.
14	Virtualization tuning	Tune ’host’ and ’guest’ for efficient virtualization.
6	Software profiling	Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications.
7	Using SystemTap	Use systemtap for profiling software.