Your understanding of SAN usage is narrow, and incorrect in the case of my organization. One major benefit that SAN-backed database storage provides us is, whe

Your understanding of SAN usage is narrow, and incorrect in the case of my organization. One major benefit that SAN-backed database storage provides us is, when combined with VMs, enables us to spin up another database instance against already existing data in the SAN (i.e. a staging DB that looks at prod data).