WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 Performance Tuning

This course teaches you how to monitor and tune WebSphere Application Servers for improved performance. You learn about performance tuning methods and monitoring tools that apply to both the application server environment and Java EE applications. These methods and tools for load testing, monitoring, and tuning are applied to various WebSphere components, such as the application server’s Java virtual machine (JVM), JDBC connection pools, JMS resources, and the general runtime environment. Course introduction WebSphere Application Server systems and components Overview of performance concepts and tuning tasks Exercise: POD configuration Apache JMeter and load testing Exercise: Apache JMeter basics Exercise: DayTrader Benchmark installation Exercise: Using Apache JMeter to load test DayTrader WebSphere performance data and tools Exercise: Performance monitoring tools WebSphere performance tuning methods Introduction to the JVM Exercise: Exploring GC policies and monitoring JVM performance Tuning the JVM Exercise: Tuning the JVM Exercise: Troubleshooting JVM problems Tuning the connection pool Exercise: Tuning JDBC connection pools and enabling servlet caching WebSphere runtime performance tuning Application profiling and tuning Exercise: Application profiling with Java Health Center WebSphere clusters and scalability Exercise: Load testing an application server cluster Course summary