SGI UV Advanced System Administration

Target Audience:

• System administrators
• System analysts

Prerequisites:

• Basic Linux knowledge
• Basic Linux administration experience

Topics Covered:

• Kernel tuning parameters
• Virtual memory
• Swap
• File system layout
• Monitor the IO layers
• RAID configuration
• XVM
• XFS
• Page Cache
• CPU Scheduler
• Numa tools

Objectives:  Upon completion of this course the student should be able to:

• Make sysctl changes based on workload characteristics
• Describe Linux virtual memory concepts
• Monitor system memory use and identify problems
• Configure swap and monitor activity
• Plan filesystem layout and I/O distribution and monitor use
• Determine the I/O path and monitor activity
• Describe trade-offs of different RAID levels
• Build a striped, concatenated, and mirrored XVM filesystem and monitor its use
• Build an XFS filesystem with best mkfs options
• Configure sysctl flush settings
• Describe the CPU scheduler and monitor the workload
• Use runon, dplace, and cpusets for topology placement