
206 Configuration and Tuning GPFS for Digital Media Environments
Data rate was 204784.35 Kbytes/sec, thread utilization 0.984
5.4 Client application considerations
It’s important to understand that much effort and money can be spend trying to
create a highly available or even fault tolerant infrastructure that is able to recover
from any failure in a short time. But none of the technically available solutions
can compete against a solution with proper client side buffering, client side load
balancing and client side failover mechanisms.
If you have the ability to influence client application design or development, we
provide you with some consider ...