Overview
The Red Hat Performance Tuning: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud (RH442) course is designed for senior Linux® system administrators looking to optimize system performance. The course delves into performance tuning methodologies, system architecture analysis, benchmarking utilities, and tuning configurations across physical, virtual, and cloud environments, ensuring efficient resource utilization and enhanced system performance.
Objectives
By the end of this course, leaner will be able to:
- Analyze and interpret system performance metrics to optimize resource utilization.
- Apply tuning profiles using the
tuned
tool for various workloads. - Manage and set resource limits using systemd-integrated cgroups.
- Diagnose system and application behaviors using advanced tracing tools.
- Optimize CPU, memory, storage, and network performance in virtualized and non-virtualized environments.
Prerequisites
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) certification or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency in managing Linux systems at an enterprise level.
- Understanding of system architecture and performance implications.
- Experience with system and application monitoring tools.
- Basic knowledge of virtualization concepts and environments.
Course Outline
- Understanding performance tuning concepts and goals.
- Evaluating a variety of performance monitoring tools included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Viewing and interpreting hardware resource listings.
- Configuring the operating system to optimize for different workload requirements.
- Managing resource contention and setting limits for services, applications, and users using cgroup configurations.
- Diagnosing system and application behaviors using various resource-specific tracing tools.
- Managing CPU resource sharing and scheduling to control utilization.
- Configuring settings for efficient memory utilization tailored to different workloads.
- Managing settings for efficient disk utilization across various use cases.
- Enhancing application efficiency concerning file system utilization.
- Improving application efficiency in network utilization.
- Understanding the requirements and techniques for tuning in virtualized settings.
- Applying learned skills by observing system performance, evaluating metrics, and configuring settings to enhance performance.