Overview
This course discusses system architecture laying emphasis on understanding the implications of system performance, methods for testing the effects of performance adjustments, open source benchmarking utilities, methods for analyzing the system and networking performance and tuning configurations for specific application loads. The course helps participants understand the tuning process for different use case situations, including tuning virtual machines, tuning memory and caches, etc.
What You'll Learn
- 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
Curriculum
Understand the basic principles of performance tuning and analysis
Gain proficiency using basic analysis tools and evaluating data
Learn basic tuning theory and mechanisms used to tune the system
Allocate resources for best performance by limiting resource usage
Understand and analyze hardware
Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications
Use systemtap for profiling software
Tune a server for a workload involving frequent reads and writes of small files
Understand memory management and tuning
Understand tuning for CPU-bound applications
Understand storage and network tuning in the context of a file server application
Tune memory and network performance using a database application as an example
Tune systems with power consumption in mind
Tune ‘host’ and ‘guest’ for efficient virtualization
Complete a comprehensive overview of the course
Who should attend
The course is highly recommended for -
- Linux system administrators
- System administrators
- IT professionals
- Software engineers
- Cloud administrators
Prerequisites
To attend this course, participants need a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification or equivalent experience.
