Red Hat Performance Tuning: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud with exam (RH443)

Target group

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

Course structure

• 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 evaluating data
• General tuning
• Learn basic tuning theory and mechanisms used to tune the system
• Limiting resource usage
• Hardware profiling
• Understand and analyze hardware
• Software profiling
• Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications
• 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
• 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