Advantages of using a virtualized SAN environment

Creating a virtualized environment by using storage virtual machines (SVMs) and LIFs enables you to expand your SAN environment to all of the nodes in your cluster.

• Distributed management

  You can log in to any node in the SVM to administer all of the nodes in a cluster.

• Increased data access

  With MPIO and ALUA, you have access to your data through any active iSCSI or FC LIFs for the SVM.

• Controlled LUN access

  If you use SLM and portsets, you can limit which LIFs an initiator can use to access LUNs.