Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning with exam

Senior Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resource utilization through performance tuning.

This course discusses 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.
• 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). This version of the course includes the exam.

Course content summary

• Tuning for use-case scenarios (for example, HPC, large memory, database, and file server)
• Applying tuning profiles with tuned
• Tuning virtual machines (primarily guest, but host is discussed)
• Tuning memory and caches
• Tuning CPU and memory utilization using cgroups (integrated in systemd)
• Gathering performance metrics and other data for tuning purposes

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) certification or equivalent experience.
• Candidates who have not earned their RHCE, can confirm they have the correct skills by passing our online skills assessment.

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.

Red Hat Performance Tuning Comprehensive Review

• Do a comprehensive overview of the course.