Course Overview
This course is intended to develop the skills needed to improve infrastructure performance, increase system utilization, reduce downtime, and improve responsiveness to system failures.
Red Hat has created this course in a way intended to benefit our customers, but each company and infrastructure is unique, and actual results or benefits may vary.
Course description
Performance tuning and capacity planning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Performance Tuning: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud with exam (RH443) teaches and validates skills related to the methodology of performance tuning for senior Linux® system administrators. This offering discusses 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.
What you’ll learn
As a result of attending this course, you should be able to obtain, analyze, and interpret system performance metrics, then use these metrics to help increase cost effectiveness, maximize application performance, and make better decisions about investment in hardware or cloud resources. Course content summary
- Analyze and tune for resource-specific scenarios
- Applying tuning profiles with the tuned tool
- Tune in virtual environments (hosts and guests)
- Trace and profile system events and activities
- Tune resource limits and utilization using systems-integrated groups
- Gather performance metrics and benchmarking data
Requirements
- Become a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®), or demonstrate equivalent experience
Target audiences
- Senior Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resource utilization through performance tuning
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 12 Lessons
- 5 Days
- Topics12
- 1.1Introduce performance tuning Describe performance tuning concepts and goals.
- 1.2Select performance monitoring tools Evaluate the large selection of performance monitoring tools that are included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- 1.3View hardware resources View and interpret hardware resource listings
- 1.4Configure kernel tunables and tuned profiles Configure the operating system to tune for different workload requirements.
- 1.5Manage resource limits with control groups Manage resource contention and set limits for resource use on services, applications, and users using cgroup configuration.
- 1.6Analyze performance using system tracing tools Diagnose system and application behaviors using a variety of resource-specific tracing tools.
- 1.7Tune CPU utilization Manage CPU resource sharing and scheduling to control utilization.
- 1.8Tune memory utilization Manage settings for efficient memory utilization for different types of workloads.
- 1.9Tune storage device I/O Manage settings for efficient disk utilization in various use cases.
- 1.10Tune file system utilization Manage application efficiency for file system utilization.
- 1.11Tune in virtualization environments Distinguish the requirements for tuning in virtualized environments.
- 1.12Perform comprehensive review Demonstrate skills learned in this course by observing system performance using the appropriate tools, evaluating system metrics, and configuring settings to improve performance.
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