This course discusses system architecture with emphasis on:

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• Understanding the implications on system performance
• Methods for testing the effects of performance adjustments
• Open source benchmarking utilities
• Methods for analyzing system and networking performance
• Tuning configurations for specific application loads

As a result of attending this course, students should be able to obtain, analyze, and interpret system performance metrics, which the business can use to increase cost effectiveness, maximize application performance, and make better decisions about investment in hardware or cloud resources.

Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• Describe how key Linux subsystems work
• Interact with applications
• Determine which tuning adjustments are relevant in different situations

• Introduction to performance tuning
• Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data
• General tuning
• Limiting resource usage
• Hardware profiling
• Software profiling
• Using SystemTap
• Small file tuning
• Large memory workload tuning
• Tuning for a CPU-intensive workload
• File server tuning
• Database server tuning
• Power usage tuning
• Virtualization tuning
• Red Hat Performance Tuning Comprehensive Review

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

• 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