'WebLogic 10.3 (Oracle 11g) Performance Tuning

Length: 3 days
CourseID: WLS10PerfTune

Prerequisites:

Weblogic 9 or 10 System Administration experience

Overview:

This course will train students to perform the majority of Weblogic Performance Tuning techniques. In this class we will investigate common Operating System, JVM, Weblogic, and application performance issues.

Objectives:

Monitor Central Processing Unit (CPU) usage

Understand and use a few tools to monitor OS performance

Use tools like Grinder to stress test applications

Tune parameters on the Sun Hotspot and BEA JRockit Java Virtual Machine

Tune parameters on BEA WebLogic Server

Understand the impact of work managers on the performance of applications deployed on BEA WebLogic Server

Tune J2EE applications level parameters deployed on BEA WebLogic Server

Improve the performance of a cluster of BEA WebLogic Servers

Chapters:

Course Introduction

Course Objectives	Course Overview
Using the Workbook	Suggested References

Weblogic Baselining

What is a baseline benchmark	Benchmark tools
Emulating valid load	Scaling a load test
Performing a Stress Test

Operating System Tuning

Operating System Impacts	UNIX Networking
UNIX Threading	UNIX vs Linux
Windows Networking	Windows Threading
Virtualiation

JVM Tuning

JVM Structure	JVM Differences
Switching the JVM	Sun JVM
Common Sun Options	Monitoring the Sun JVM
JRockit JVM	Common JRockit Options
Monitoring the JRockit JVM

Weblogic Server Tuning

Weblogic components	WLST monitoring
Changing settings in WLST	Disabling unused components
Common Weblogic tuning parameters	Thread Pools
Network Channels	Clustering for Performance

Application Tuning

Application Structure	Servlet/JSP performance
JMS Tuning	EJB Tuning
JDBC Tuning

Work Managers

Work Manager Introduction	Defining Work Managers
Common Thread Pool	Using Work Managers
Request Classes	Constraints