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Guidelines for provisioning storage in a SAN environment

When provisioning storage in a SAN environment, there are several best practices you should follow to ensure that your systems run smoothly.

You should follow these guidelines when creating traditional or FlexVol volumes that contain LUNs, regardless of which provisioning method you choose:

For more information about creating volumes, see the Data ONTAP Storage Management Guide for 7-Mode.