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

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.