VSAN-Troubleshooting-Reference-Manual

Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Reference Manual – Virtual SAN
Cluster Monitoring, Membership and Directory Services - CMMDS
CMMDS discovers, establishes and maintains a cluster of networked node members,
for example, when a new host is added to the Virtual SAN cluster. It manages the
inventory of items such as Nodes, Devices, Networks and stores metadata
information such as policies, distributed RAID configuration, etc.
Reliable Datagram Transport - RDT
RDT, the reliable datagram transport, is the communication mechanism within
Virtual SAN. It is uses TCP at the transport layer and it is responsible for creating
and destroying TCP connections (sockets) on demand.
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