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

Introduction to performance tuning

• Understand the basic principles of performance tuning and analysis

Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data

• Gain proficiency in using basic analysis tools and in evaluating data

General tuning

• Learn basic tuning theory and mechanisms used to tune the system

Hardware profiling

• Understanding and analyzing hardware

Software profiling

• Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications

Mail server tuning

• Learn about basic storage tuning using an email server as an example

Large memory workload tuning

• Understand memory management and tuning

HPC workload tuning

• 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

• Tuning memory and network performance using a database application as an example

Power usage tuning

• Tuning systems with power consumption in mind

Virtualization Tuning

• Tuning 'host' and 'guest' for efficient virtualization