Types of SVMs

A cluster consists of four types of SVMs, which help in managing the cluster and its resources and data access to the clients and applications.

A cluster contains the following types of SVMs:

• Admin SVM

  The cluster setup process automatically creates the admin SVM for the cluster. The admin SVM represents the cluster.

• Node SVM

  A node SVM is created when the node joins the cluster, and the node SVM represents the individual nodes of the cluster.

• System SVM (advanced)

  A system SVM is automatically created for cluster-level communications in an IPspace.

• Data SVM

  A data SVM represents the data serving SVMs. After the cluster setup, a cluster administrator must create data SVMs and add volumes to these SVMs to facilitate data access from the cluster.

  A cluster must have at least one data SVM to serve data to its clients.