Figure 1. SAN Data Movement. Solid lines indicate data movement. Broken lines indicate
movement of control information and metadata.
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Figure 2. SAN Data Movement with the LANFREECOMMMETHOD option. Solid lines
indicate data movement. Broken lines indicate movement of control information and
metadata. The LANFREECOMMMETHOD option allows the storage agent to support several
clients while installed on only one of the clients.
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