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| <section id="about-pods"> |
| <title>About Pods</title> |
| <para>A pod often represents a single rack. Hosts in the same pod are in the same subnet. |
| A pod is the third-largest organizational unit within a &PRODUCT; deployment. Pods are contained within zones. Each zone can contain one or more pods. |
| A pod consists of one or more clusters of hosts and one or more primary storage servers. |
| Pods are not visible to the end user. |
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| <textobject><phrase>pod-overview.png: Nested structure of a simple pod</phrase></textobject> |
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