Audience and prerequisites

Audience for this course

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

Prerequisites for this course

• 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

Outline for this course

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.

Note: Course outline is subject to change with technology advances and as the nature of the underlying job evolves. For questions or confirmation on a specific objective or topic, please contact a training specialist.

Recommended next exam or course

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Linux Performance Tuning exam (EX442)

Tests candidates' ability to use standard system tools to analyze the performance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and applications running on it and to modify the behavior of the system and applications to improve system performance.

This course prepares you for these credentials

Red Hat Certified Architect — RHCA^®

RHCA certification represents a depth of knowledge in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and breadth of knowledge across other Red Hat technologies.

Certificates of Expertise

Certificates of Expertise are incremental credentials attached to an RHCE certification that demonstrate skills and knowledge in specialized areas.

Impact on the organization

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.

Impact on the individual

As a result of attending this course, students should be able to obtain, analyze, and interpret system performance metrics, which the business can use to increase cost effectiveness, maximize application performance, and make better decisions about investment in hardware or cloud resources.

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 situations