Solaris System Performance Management

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code.

SA-400

length.

5 days

type.

Instructor-Led

partner.

Sun Microsystems

price.

$4,000 :: $3,400 GSA GOV.

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.

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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

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

related courses, exams and materials

	before related training and products

SA-299 Advanced System Administration for the Solaris 9 OS

	after related training and products

SA-399 Network Administration for the Solaris 9 OS

course content details

	Module 1 - Introducing Performance Management

	Describe the principles of performance tuning
	Describe the performance tuning process
	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