diff --git a/docs/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.md b/docs/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.md index 74c3d5f25..cc1ddb55f 100644 --- a/docs/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.md +++ b/docs/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.md @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ VictoriaMetrics cluster consists of the following services: - `vmselect` - performs incoming queries using the data from `vmstorage` Each service may scale independently and may run on the most suitable hardware. +`vmstorage` nodes don't know about each other, don't communicate with each other and don't share any data. +This is [shared nothing architecture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared-nothing_architecture). +It increases cluster availability, simplifies cluster maintenance and cluster scaling.