Internal building blocks of VSAN
Furthermore, there are internal components that work below the surface of VSAN. While an administrator may never have to deal with these components, a fair understanding of these components will help understand the internal workflow of VSAN and also to effectively troubleshoot issues.
We will discuss the following internal components of VSAN and how they work together:
- Reliable datagram transport
- Cluster monitoring, membership, and directory services
- Cluster-level object manager
- Distributed object manager
- Local log structured object manager
Reliable datagram transport
The primary backbone for VSAN functionality is the VMkernel port group for VSAN traffic and reliable datagram transport (RDT) operates on top of the VSAN ...
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