Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning

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

• Tuning for use-case scenarios (for example, HPC, large memory, database, and file server)
• Applying tuning profiles with tuned
• Tuning virtual machines (primarily guest, but host is discussed)
• Tuning memory and caches
• Tuning CPU and memory utilization using cgroups (integrated in systemd)
• Gathering performance metrics and other data for tuning purposes

Introduction to performance tuning
Understand the basic principles of performance tuning and analysis.

Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data
Gain proficiency 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. 

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) certification or equivalent experience
• Candidates who have not earned their RHCE can confirm they have the correct skills by passing our online skills assessment