Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning (RH442)

Course Overview :

This  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 Certificate of Expertise in Performance Tuning exam (EX442).

Outline for this course :

• Introduction to performance tuning
• Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data
• General tuning
• Limiting resource usage
• Hardware profiling
• Software profiling
• Using SystemTap
• Small file tuning
• Large memory workload tuning
• Tuning for a CPU-intensive workload
• File server tuning
• Database server tuning
• Power usage tuning
• Virtualization tuning
• Red Hat Performance Tuning Comprehensive Review

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.