Capacity Planning & Performance Tuning of Solaris/Linux

Capacitas Training Centre,
London, United Kingdom.
4 Days

Price: £2,140 +VAT

Scheduled Dates:
12th to 15th Mar 2012

Learn how to:

Avoid costly hardware upgrades through effective capacity planning and performance tuning
Ensure service level compliance through capacity and performance monitoring
Identify business drivers of common applications
Collect performance measures from Linux/Solaris systems
Select the appropriate Linux/Solaris performance tools specific to your problem domain
Characterise workloads on Linux/Solaris based systems
Identify and eliminate memory, disk, processor and network bottlenecks
Apply performance tuning techniques to common Solaris/Linux applications
Evaluate the risks associated with performance tuning

Course Agenda

Day 1
9:00 - 9:30	Registration
9:30 - 11:00	Introduction Course agenda The history and evolution of Unix Systems
11:00 - 11:15	Morning Break
11:15 - 13:00	Architecture Overview Processor Architectures Multiprocessing Architectures Memory Management Disk Architectures
13:00 - 13:45	Lunch
13:45 - 14:45	Performance & Capacity Monitoring Metric Types: Throughput, Response and Utilisation Implementing Long Term Capacity Monitoring Performance Monitoring Tools NAGIOS
14:45 - 15:00	Afternoon Break
15:00 - 16:30	Cache Performance CPU Cache Memory Cache Application Cache Monitoring Cache Performance

Day 2
9:00 - 11:00	Processor Capacity & Performance Understanding Threading Models Multiprocessing Systems
11:00 - 11:15	Morning Break
11:15 - 13:00	Processor Capacity & Performance (cont.) Workload Management Monitoring Processor Capacity and Performance
13:00 - 13:45	Lunch
13:45 - 14:45	Memory Capacity & Performance Memory Architecture Real Memory vs. Virtual Memory Paging and Swapping Filesystem Caching
14:45 - 15:00	Afternoon Break
15:00 - 16:30	Memory Capacity & Performance (cont.) Monitoring Memory Capacity and Performance Analysing and Interpreting Memory Performance Data Identifying Memory Bottlenecks Memory Sizing Tools

Day 3
9:00 - 11:00	Disk I/O Capacity and Performance Disk Architecture Understanding delay in the disk subsystem SAN Performance Overview
11:00 - 11:15	Morning Break
11:15 - 13:00	Disk I/O Capacity and Performance (cont.) File System Performance Monitoring Disk I/O Performance
13:00 - 13:45	Lunch
13:45 - 14:45	Network Performance Network Architecture Using NFS Monitoring Network Capacity and Performance
14:45 - 15:00	Afternoon Break
15:00 - 16:30	Network Performance (cont.) Network Performance Monitoring and Tuning

Day 4
9:00 - 11:00	Capacity Planning & Performance Tuning of Database Servers Understanding Database Server Workloads Database Performance Monitoring Database Tuning Capacity Planning a Database Server
11:00 - 11:15	Morning Break
11:15 - 13:00	Capacity Planning & Performance Tuning of Application Servers Application Server Workloads: Batch and Online Monitoring Application Workloads Application Tuning
13:00 - 13:45	Lunch
13:45 - 14:45	Capacity Planning & Performance Tuning of Application Servers - Case Study Modelling EJB Container Settings
14:45 - 15:00	Afternoon Break
15:00 - 16:30	Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning of Web Servers Understanding and Analysing Web Server Workloads Web Server Performance Monitoring Analysing Web Logs Capacity Planning a Web Server

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