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

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

Hardware profiling

Understand and analyze hardware.

Software profiling

Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications.

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.

Note: Course outline is subject to change with technology advances and as the nature of the underlying job evolves.

Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Performance Tuning exam (EX442)

Tests candidates' ability to use standard system tools to analyze the performance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and applications running on it and to modify the behavior of the system and applications to improve system performance.

This course prepares you for these credentials

Red Hat Certified Architect — RHCA^®

RHCA certification represents a depth of knowledge in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and breadth of knowledge across other Red Hat technologies.

Certificates of Expertise

Certificates of Expertise are incremental credentials attached to an RHCE certification that demonstrate skills and knowledge in specialized areas.