Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning (RH442)

1. Introduction to performance tuning

• Understand the basic principles of performance tuning and analysis

2. Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data

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

3. General tuning

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

4. Hardware profiling

• Understand and analyze hardware

5. Software profiling

• Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications

6. Mail server tuning

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

7. Large memory workload tuning

• Understand memory management and tuning

8. HPC workload tuning

• Understand tuning for CPU-bound applications

9. File server tuning

• Understand storage and network tuning in the context of a file server application

10. Database server tuning

• Tune memory and network performance using a database application as an example

11. Power usage tuning

• Tune systems with power consumption in mind

12. 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