Take a look at "fs setserverprefs".

On October 25, 2015 9:38:32 PM EDT, Garance A Drosehn <[email protected]> wrote:
>We have some AFS volumes which hold data for various web servers on
>campus.  These volumes are replicated on multiple file servers,
>because that's an intelligent thing to do with important data.
>
>We also have multiple web servers, because it's also intelligent to
>split the web-serving load across machines, and to have redundancy
>in our web servers.
>
>All of these are virtual machines on various VMware hypervisors.
>While doing some benchmarks on new AFS file servers, I noticed that
>AFS data is transferred much faster if the afs client machine is on
>the same hypervisor as the afs file server that it's contacting.
>
>Is there some way to encourage this to happen on our web servers?
>If the important AFS data is replicated on both afsfs1 (on vmhyper1)
>and afsfs2 (on vmhyper2), can we have a web-server on vmhyper1
>prefer afsfs1 instead of afsfs2?  I'd want it to still use afsfs2
>if it can't reach afsfs1 (for the case where vmhyper1 is fine, but
>afsfs1 is being rebooted for some reason).
>
>Nothing urgent here.  Just wondering.
>
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>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA
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