Name: Red Hat Performance Tuning: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud
Brand: Red Hat

RHLS Course: Instructor-led Online Training, E-Learning and Certification in one Learning Format

The Red Hat Learning Subscription Course offers a flexible, 12-month learning experience designed to help you build Red Hat skills and prepare for certification at your own pace. It combines live virtual instruction, self-paced content, hands-on labs, and exam readiness tools, giving you multiple ways to learn and succeed.

What’s included with your RHLS Course:

Self-paced learning: 365 days of on-demand access to course content

Live virtual session: One instructor-led virtual session for the selected course

Hands-on labs: 100 lab hours dedicated to the chosen course

Certification exam: One exam voucher included, plus one free retake

Exam readiness tools: Objective mapping, practice catalog, and exam catalog

Progress dashboard: Track learning activity, metrics, and progress

Who should attend

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

Prerequisites

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) certification or equivalent experience

Course Objectives

During this course, you will learn:

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

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to performance tuning

Understand the basic principles of performance tuning and analysis.

Module 2: Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data

Gain proficiency using basic analysis tools and evaluating data.

Module 3: General tuning

Learn basic tuning theory and mechanisms used to tune the system.

Module 4: Limiting resource usage

Module 5: Hardware profiling

Understand and analyze hardware.

Module 6: Software profiling

Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications.

Module 7: Small file tuning

Tune a server for a workload involving frequent reads and writes of small files.

Module 8: Large memory workload tuning

Understand memory management and tuning.

Module 9: Tuning for a CPU-intensive workload

Understand tuning for CPU-bound applications.

Module 10: File server tuning

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

Module 11: Database server tuning

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

Module 12: Power usage tuning

Tune systems with power consumption in mind.

Module 13: Virtualization tuning

Tune 'host' and 'guest' for efficient virtualization.

Course Content

Red Hat® Enterprise Performance Tuning teaches senior Linux® system administrators about performance tuning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.This course discusses system architecture with 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 Certified Specialist in Linux Performance Tuning Exam (EX442).

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