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</head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><span>Hi Tom,<br>
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Couple of quick ones:<br>
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Do you know what the latency and line distance is likely to be? What's
the rated bandwidth on the line? Is the workload at the 'local' site
fairly mixed in terms of reads/writes? What is the kernel version on the
current cluster?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Barry<br>
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<br>I've recently adopted a small two node GPFS cluster which is likely
to
be relocated to an off-site datacentre in the near future and I'm
concerned that latency times are going to be impacted for on-site users.
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<br>My reading of AFM is that an Independent Writer cache held on-site
could
mitigate this and was wondering whether anybody had any experience of
using AFM caches in this manner.
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<br>Thanks
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<br>Tom King
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