A systems administrator is building a new visualization cluster. The cluster consists of five virtual hosts, which each have flash and spinning disks. This storage is shared among all the virtual hosts, where a virtual machine running on one host may store data on another host. This is an example of:
A) a storage area network.
B) a network file system.
C) hyperconverged storage.
D) thick-provisioned disks.

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A storage area network (SAN) is a network that provides access to shared storage devices. In this case, the five virtual hosts are connected to a SAN that provides access to the flash and spinning disks. This allows the virtual machines running on the hosts to store data on any of the disks, regardless of which host they are running on.

A Systems Administrator Is Building a New Visualization Cluster