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

1 – Introduce performance tuning

• Describe performance tuning concepts and goals.

2 – Select performance monitoring tools

• Evaluate the large selection of performance monitoring tools that are included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

3 – View hardware resources

• View and interpret hardware resource listings.

4 – Configure kernel tunables and tuned profiles

• Configure the operating system to tune for different workload requirements.

5 – Manage resource limits with control groups

• Manage resource contention and set limits for resource use on services, applications, and users using cgroup configuration.

6 – Analyze performance using system tracing tools

• Diagnose system and application behaviors using a variety of resource-specific tracing tools.

7 – Tune CPU utilization

• Manage CPU resource sharing and scheduling to control utilization.

8 – Tune memory utilization

• Manage settings for efficient memory utilization for different types of workloads.

9 – Tune storage device I/O

• Manage settings for efficient disk utilization in various use cases.

10 – Tune file system utilization

• Manage application efficiency for file system utilization.

11 – Tune network utilization

• Manage application efficiency for network utilization.

12 – Tune in virtualization environments

• Distinguish the requirements for tuning in virtualized environments.

13 – Perform comprehensive review

• Demonstrate skills learned in this course by observing system performance using the appropriate tools, evaluating system metrics, and configuring settings to improve performance.