Course

Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud («RH442»)

Red Hat® Enterprise Performance Tuning teaches senior Linux® system administrators about performance tuning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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RH442

Duration 4 days
Price 3'700.–
Please note:  This is a reseller course and as such excluded from any discounts (excluding promo codes).
Version: Dieser Kurs wird mit RHEL 8 durchgeführt

Course facts

Key Learnings
  • 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
Content

This course discusses system architecture with emphasis on 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, and tuning configurations for specific application loads.

This course can also help you prepare for the Red Hat Certified Specialist in Linux Performance Tuning exam (EX442).

  • 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
    • Allocate resources for best performance by limiting resource usage
  • Hardware profiling
    • Understand and analyze hardware
  • Software profiling
    • Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications
  • Using SystemTap
    • Use systemtap for profiling software
  • 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
  • Red Hat Performance Tuning Comprehensive Review
    • Do a comprehensive overview of the course
Target audience
Senior Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resource utilization through performance tuning
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2025
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2025
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5
May
2025
9
May
2025
Virtual Training
German
Timetable
Registration deadline: 01.05.2025
CHF 3’700.-
exkl. 8.1% Mwst.
CHF 3’700.-
exkl. 8.1% Mwst.