Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning (RH442)

In this course, you will learn about system architecture with an 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, and tuning configurations for specific application loads.

This course can help you prepare for the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Performance Tuning exam (EX442). This version of the course does not include the exam.

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Tuning for use-case scenarios (for example, 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

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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. Hardware profiling

Understand and analyze hardware

5. Software profiling

Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications

6. Mail server tuning

Learn about basic storage tuning using an email server as an example

7. Large memory workload tuning

Understand memory management and tuning

8. HPC workload tuning

Understand tuning for CPU-bound applications

9. File server tuning

Understand storage and network tuning in the context of a file server application

10. Database server tuning

Tune memory and network performance using a database application as an example

11. Power usage tuning

Tune systems with power consumption in mind

12. Virtualization tuning

Tune host and guest for efficient virtualization

Note: Course outline is subject to change with technology advances and as the nature of the underlying job evolves

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

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Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning (RH442)

Course Overview

Schedule

What You'll Learn

Outline

Classroom Live Outline

1. Introduction to performance tuning

2. Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data

3. General tuning

4. Hardware profiling

5. Software profiling

6. Mail server tuning

7. Large memory workload tuning

8. HPC workload tuning

9. File server tuning

10. Database server tuning

11. Power usage tuning

12. Virtualization tuning

1. Introduction to performance tuning

2. Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data

3. General tuning

4. Hardware profiling

5. Software profiling

6. Mail server tuning

7. Large memory workload tuning

8. HPC workload tuning

9. File server tuning

10. Database server tuning

11. Power usage tuning

12. Virtualization tuning

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