An ONTAP storage administrator needs to securely segregate workloads for different departments while using the same cluster. Each department must have its own authentication domain, network interfaces, and volumes, but share the same physical hardware. Which ONTAP feature provides this capability?

An ONTAP storage administrator needs to securely segregate workloads for different departments while using the same cluster. Each department must have its own authentication domain, network interfaces, and volumes, but share the same physical hardware. Which ONTAP feature provides this capability?

• A. FlexGroup volumes
• B. Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs)
• C. SnapMirror relationships
• D. Aggregates

Answer: (B)

Storage Virtual Machines enable multiple tenants to share one cluster while keeping their own security and network boundaries. Each SVM acts as its own storage namespace with separate authentication domain (local users or LDAP/AD bindings), its own set of network interfaces (LIFs) and IPs, and its own volumes. All of this exists on the same physical hardware because SVMs are logical partitions inside a single ONTAP cluster. FlexGroup volumes provide a scalable single namespace across nodes but do not create separate authentication or network isolation per tenant. SnapMirror is for data replication, and aggregates are just physical storage pools, not tenant isolation.

Storage Virtual Machines enable multiple tenants to share one cluster while keeping their own security and network boundaries. Each SVM acts as its own storage namespace with separate authentication domain (local users or LDAP/AD bindings), its own set of network interfaces (LIFs) and IPs, and its own volumes. All of this exists on the same physical hardware because SVMs are logical partitions inside a single ONTAP cluster. FlexGroup volumes provide a scalable single namespace across nodes but do not create separate authentication or network isolation per tenant. SnapMirror is for data replication, and aggregates are just physical storage pools, not tenant isolation.