Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning with (EX442) Exam

Nederlands:

Ervaren Linux-systeembeheerders die verantwoordelijk zijn voor het optimaliseren van het gebruik van systeembronnen via 'performance tuning', en RHCE's die interesse hebben in het behalen van een Red Hat Certificate of Expertise of de titel Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)

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English:

Experienced Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resource utilization through performance tuning
An RHCE interested in earning a Red Hat Certification of Expertise or a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) credential

Nederlands:

• Tuning in gebruiksscenario's (bijvoorbeeld HPC, grote geheugens, databases, bestandsservers enzovoort) 
• Tuning met het oog op het energieverbruik 
• Het tunen van virtuele machines (host en guest) 
• Het tunen van het geheugen en caches 
• Het tunen van het CPU- en geheugengebruik via cgroups 
• Het verzamelen van prestatiestatistieken en andere gegevens voor tuningdoeleinden

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English:

• Tuning for use-case scenarios (for example, HPC, large memory, database, file server, and so on)
• Tuning for power consumption
• Tuning virtual machines (host and guest)
• Tuning memory and caches
• Tuning CPU and memory utilization using cgroups
• Gathering performance metrics and other data for tuning purposes
  

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

• Understand and analyze 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

• 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.

Nederlands:

Een RHCE-certificering of vergelijkbare ervaring

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English:

RHCE certification or equivalent experience

EX442, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Linux Performance Tuning exam

• RHS429, Red Hat Enterprise SELinux Policy Administration