Course Description

RH442 Red Hat Enterprise  Performance Tuning is an advanced 4-day hands-on lab course covering system architecture, performance characteristics, monitoring, benchmarking, and network performance tuning.

RH442 is designed to teach the methodology of performance tuning and capacity planning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This class will cover: a discussion of system architecture with an emphasis on understanding the implications of system architecture on system performance, methods for testing the effects of performance adjustments (benchmarking), open source benchmarking utilities, methods for analyzing system performance and networking performance, tuning configurations for specific application loads.

Course Content

• Introduction to performance tuning
• Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data
• General tuning
• Hardware profiling
• Software profiling
• Mail server tuning
• Large memory workload tuning
• HPC workload tuning
• File server tuning
• Database server tuning
• Power usage tuning
• Virtualization tuning

Audience

• RH442 is aimed at senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators and other IT professionals working in enterprise environments and mission-critical systems.

Prerequisites

• Participants in RH442 should already be familiar with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Recommended minimum competency level is completion of the RHCE or equivalent knowledge.