The Solaris System Performance Management course introduces students to performance tuning principles, monitoring utilities and tuning tools for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). The presentation includes a review of Solaris subsystems and the utilities provided to monitor system efficiency including sar, vmstat, iostat, netstat, mpstat, nfsstat. This revision also presents tools new to Solaris 10, including dtrace, alongside these well known utilities.
The course format isolates each major system component that affects to system performance data. Each subsystem is presented through a case study that shows how performance bottlenecks can be isolated, confirmed through analysis, and resolved through making adjustments to the system configuration.
The Central Processing Units (CPUs), memory, and input/output (I/O) systems are reviewed to clarify standard techniques for monitoring each one. Monitoring and tuning virtual memory operations, logical volume systems, file systems, and network efficiency are discussed as well, using the case study introduction described above.
The course concludes with a more general case study to examine the full cycle of identifying and resolving performance impediments. The Solaris System Performance Management course includes lab exercises to reinforce skills development.
Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
Describe performance management fundamentals
Use the Solaris OS and third-party tools to analyze performance
View and set kernel-based tuning parameters
Monitor and report on process and thread activity
Modify CPU scheduling and virtual memory operations
Describe system caches and system buses
Tune I/O, UNIX(R) File System (UFS), and network subsystems
Who Can Benefit
Senior system administrators and others concerned with monitoring effective performance of Solaris systems can benefit from this course. Students who want to learn the performance tools provided with Solaris 10 can also benefit from this course.
Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:
Install and configure the Solaris OS
Employ advanced systems administration skills in a networked Solaris OS server environment
Manage pseudo and distributed file systems
Create and manage logical volumes
Describe fundamentals of TCP operations
Code:
SA-400
Length:
5 days
Type:
Instructor-Led
Certified By:
Sun Microsystems
Tuition:
$4,000 / $3,400 GSA GOV.
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Understand the terms used to describe performance aspects
Module 2 - Using the Solaris OS Monitoring Tools
Describe and use monitoring tools provided with the Solaris OS
Monitor system performance using SymbEL (SE) Toolkit programs
Describe online resources for third-party utilities
Enable system accounting
Module 3 - Viewing and Setting Tuning Parameters
View tuning parameters
Set tuning parameters
Module 4 - Monitoring Processes and Threads
Describe a process
Describe threads
Compare the performance of single-threaded and multithreaded processes
Monitor processes
Module 5 - Performing CPU Scheduling
Control and Monitor CPUs
Monitor CPUs by using SE Toolkit programs
Describe scheduling
Display and change scheduler parameters
Change the scheduling behavior of a process
Describe Solaris Resource Manager projects and the Fair Share Scheduler (FSS)
Module 6 - Monitoring System Caches
Describe a cache
Describe the characteristics of a cache
Identify cache problems associated with multiple CPUs
Identify cache problems associated with cache design
Module 7 - Performing Memory Tuning
Monitor memory utilization
Describe virtual memory
Cache disk-based files
Identify paging statistics
Describe swapping
Identify the memory requirements of an application
Identify memory shortage in a system
Module 8 - Managing Systems Buses
Describe a bus
Describe the prtdiag utility
Diagnose the problems associated with buses
Module 9 - Performing I/O Tuning
Describe the characteristics of a SCSI bus
Describe the time components of disk I/O
Describe driver and bus features that enhance performance
View disk and bus device properties
Describe I/O performance planning
Describe VERITAS Volume Manager and Solaris Volume Manager
Tune the I/O subsystem
Monitor disks by using the Vdbench and SWAT utilities
Module 10 - Tuning UFS
Monitor file system performance statistics
Describe OS services that affect UFS performance
Describe application behavior that affects UFS performance
Tune UFS parameters to improve system efficiency
Tune UFS parameters to match application workloads
Describe alternative write strategies to UFS buffering
Describe alternative file systems to UFS
Module 11 - Monitoring Network Performance
Describe TCP
Describe the performance of network hardware
Monitor network performance with Solaris utilities
Monitor networks by using SE Toolkit programs
Module 12 - Maintaining System Performance
Describe steps for maintaining system performance
Set up system accounting
Describe common utilities for measuring system performance and identifying problem applications
Describe specific types of bottlenecks and methods for reducing them
Describe a basic method for maintaining system performance
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