Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning is designed to teach senior Linux system administrators the methodology of performance tuning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In this course, you will gain a better understanding of the system architecture with an emphasis on the implications of system architecture on system performance. You will learn the methods for testing the effects of performance adjustments, open source benchmarking utilities, methods for analyzing system and networking performance, and tuning configurations for specific application loads.

Certification:

Upon passing the exam, you'll receive a Certificate of Expertise for Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning This exam is one out of three exams needed to earn the RHCDS certification and one out of five exams needed to earn the RHCA certification.

What You'll Learn

• Tuning for use-case scenarios (HPC, large memory, database, and file server)
• Tuning for power consumption
• Tuning virtual machines (host and guest)
• Tuning memory and caches
• Tuning CPU and memory utilization using cgroups
• Gathering performance metrics and other data for tuning purposes

Who Needs to Attend

RHCEs who want to prepare for and take the Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning exam. If you are not an RHCE, you should enroll in RH423, a four-day course that does not include the exam.

Prerequisites

You must be a current RHCE to take this course and exam

Follow-On Courses

• Red HatŪ Enterprise Deployment and System Management with EX401 (RH402)
• Red HatŪ Enterprise Directory Services with Exam (RH424)
• Red HatŪ Storage Management with Exam (EX436)

Course Outline

1. Performance Tuning

• Basic principles of performance tuning and analysis

2. Collecting, Graphing, and Interpreting Data

• Using basic analysis tools s
• Evaluating data

3. General Tuning

• Tuning theory and mechanisms used to tune the systemem

4. Hardware Profiling

• Analyze hardware

5. Software Profiling

• Analyze hardware

6. Mail Server Tuning

• Analyze hardware

7. Large Memory Workload Tuning

• Analyze hardware

8. HPC Workload Tuning

• Analyze hardware

9. File Server Tuning

• Analyze hardware

10. Database Server Tuning

• Analyze hardware

11. Power Usage Tuning

• Analyze hardware

12. Virtualization Tuning

• Analyze hardware