Information Technology
Red Hat Performance Tuning: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud (RH442)
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.
5 Days
40 Hrs
14 Lessons
Course Objectives
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
Agenda
- Understand the basic principles of performance tuning and analysis.
- Gain proficiency in using basic analysis tools and in evaluating data.
- Learn basic tuning theory and mechanisms used to tune the system.
- Allocate resources for best performance by limiting resource usage.
- Understand and analyze hardware.
- Tune a server for a workload involving frequent reads and writes of small files.
- Understand memory management and tuning.
- Understand tuning for CPU-bound applications.
- Understand storage and network tuning in the context of a file server application.
- Tune memory and network performance using a database application as an example.
- Tune systems with power consumption in mind.
- Tune ’host’ and ’guest’ for efficient virtualization.
- Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications.
- Use systemtap for profiling software.
FREE
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Course Type: Instructor Led