Red Hat Performance Tuning: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud with Exam

Experienced Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resource utilization through performance tuning
An RHCE interested in earning a Red Hat Certification of Expertise or a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) credential

• Tuning for use-case scenarios (for example, HPC, large memory, database, file server, and so on)
• 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
  

Introduction to performance tuning

• Understand the basic principles of performance tuning and analysis.

Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data

• Gain proficiency in using basic analysis tools and in evaluating data.

General tuning

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

Hardware profiling

• Understand and analyze hardware.

Software profiling

• Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications.

Mail server tuning

• Learn about basic storage tuning using an email server as an example.

Large memory workload tuning

• Understand memory management and tuning.

HPC workload tuning

• 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.

RHCE certification or equivalent experience

Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning Expertise Exam (EX442) Hands-on, performance-based, 4-hour exam. This course prepares you for these credentials:

• Red Hat Certified Architect — RHCA
• Certificates of Expertise

• RHS429, Red Hat Enterprise SELinux Policy Administration