• • 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.