When considering the move to a next-generation SAN infrastructure, a careful study of the existing equipment must be performed. All issues must be highlighted prior to committing to an implementation strategy. Shared storage can be a very motivating business case for an organization, driven by the need for an administrator to manage a higher quantity of disk storage and for greater utilization of storage resources. But a cost/benefit analysis needs to be performed to compare various approaches. A typical comparison is to look at shared storage versus traditional locally attached storage.