Technical requirements

This chapter is a lot more hands-on and requires prior experience with the Linux command line. Most of the readers might already be aware of some of the tools and technologies discussed in this chapter. Having basic system administration skills will be helpful, as these tools deal with resource monitoring and analysis. It would be best to have the required privileges (root or sudo) to run these tools. Depending upon the Linux distribution of your choice, you’ll need to install the relevant packages. To install iostat and iotop on Debian/Ubuntu, use the following:

apt install sysstat iotop

To install iostat and iotop on Fedora/Red Hat, use the following:

yum install sysstat iotop

To install Performance Co-Pilot, you can refer to the installation instructions in their official documentation at the following link: https://pcp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/HowTos/installation/index.html.

The usage of these commands is the same on all Linux distributions...