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RH442 - Red Hat Performance Tuning: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud

Length 4 days
Price NZD 5120 exc GST

Course overview

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Why study this course

This course teaches senior Linux® system administrators the methodology of performance tuning. This course 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.

This course is based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 8.

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What you’ll learn

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

Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:

Analyse 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 utilisation using systemd-integrated cgroups
Gather performance metrics and benchmarking data

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Who is the course for?

Senior Linux system administrators responsible for maximising resource utilisation through performance tuning.

Course subjects

Introduce performance tuning
Describe performance tuning concepts and goals.

Select performance monitoring tools
Evaluate the large selection of performance monitoring tools that are included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

View hardware resources
View and interpret hardware resource listings.

Configure kernel tunables and tuned profiles
Configure the operating system to tune for different workload requirements.

Manage resource limits with control groups
Manage resource contention and set limits for resource use on services, applications, and users using cgroup configuration.

Analyse performance using system tracing tools
Diagnose system and application behaviors using a variety of resource-specific tracing tools.

Tune CPU utilisation
Manage CPU resource sharing and scheduling to control utilisation.

Tune memory utilisation
Manage settings for efficient memory utilisation for different types of workloads.

Tune storage device I/O
Manage settings for efficient disk utilisation in various use cases.

Tune file system utilisation
Manage application efficiency for file system utilisation.

Tune network utilisation
Manage application efficiency for network utilisation.

Tune in virtualisation environments
Distinguish the requirements for tuning in virtualised environments.

Perform 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.

Prerequisites

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification or equivalent experience

For candidates who have not earned their RHCE, confirmation of the correct skill set knowledge can be obtained by passing the online skills assessment.

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