Курс RH442: Red Hat Performance Tuning: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud

Course content summary

• Analyze and tune for resource-specific scenarios
• Applying tuning profiles with the tuned tool
• Tune in virtual environments (hosts and guests)
• Trace and profile system events and activities
• Tune resource limits and utilization using systemd-integrated cgroups
• Gather performance metrics and benchmarking data

Outline for this course

• Introduce performance tuning
• Describe performance tuning concepts and goals.
• Select performance monitoring tools
• Evaluate the large selection of performance monitoring tools that are included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• View hardware resources
• View and interpret hardware resource listings.
• Configure kernel tunables and tuned profiles
• Configure the operating system to tune for different workload requirements.
• Manage resource limits with control groups
• Manage resource contention and set limits for resource use on services, applications, and users using cgroup configuration.
• Analyze performance using system tracing tools
• Diagnose system and application behaviors using a variety of resource-specific tracing tools.
• Tune CPU utilization
• Manage CPU resource sharing and scheduling to control utilization.
• Tune memory utilization
• Manage settings for efficient memory utilization for different types of workloads.
• Tune storage device I/O
• Manage settings for efficient disk utilization in various use cases.
• Tune file system utilization
• Manage application efficiency for file system utilization.
• Tune network utilization
• Manage application efficiency for network utilization.
• Tune in virtualization environments
• Distinguish the requirements for tuning in virtualized environments.
• Perform comprehensive review
• Demonstrate skills learned in this course by observing system performance using the appropriate tools, evaluating system metrics, and configuring settings to improve performance.