公开(公告)号：US10305987B2

公开(公告)日：2019-05-28

申请号：US15095455

申请日：2016-04-11

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Fei Guo ,  Keyong Sun ,  Yonggang Wang ,  Dousheng Zhao ,  Liang Li

IPC: G06F13/00 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/24

Abstract: A virtual machine (VM) system includes a network, hosts that are able to communicate over the network, a storage cluster of nodes made up by the hosts, and VMs running on the hosts. As part of the storage cluster, the nodes pool their storage devices into a clustered datastore shared across all the nodes. The VMs are stored in the clustered datastore. Two of the nodes take roles of a reflector node and a backup reflector node. The other nodes, excluding the reflector node but including the backup reflector node, are configured to establish unicast connections over the network with the reflector node. The nodes in the storage cluster are configured to communicate clustering service information over the unicast connections.