https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Better-to-have-SAN-and-NAS-SVMs-Separate/m-p/136740#M30135 <P>We are 100% NAS but recently added FC to our FAS8080 EX (cDOT 9.2)&nbsp;for legacy ESXi datastores (cannot be NFS).&nbsp; Should we create the FC LUNs in the same SVM as our NAS volumes or do folks tend to have separate SVMs for SAN and NAS protocols?</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:14:19 GMT hello-jon 2025-06-04T14:14:19Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Better-to-have-SAN-and-NAS-SVMs-Separate/m-p/136740#M30135 <P>We are 100% NAS but recently added FC to our FAS8080 EX (cDOT 9.2)&nbsp;for legacy ESXi datastores (cannot be NFS).&nbsp; Should we create the FC LUNs in the same SVM as our NAS volumes or do folks tend to have separate SVMs for SAN and NAS protocols?</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:14:19 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Better-to-have-SAN-and-NAS-SVMs-Separate/m-p/136740#M30135 hello-jon 2025-06-04T14:14:19Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Better-to-have-SAN-and-NAS-SVMs-Separate/m-p/136741#M30136 <P>Answered my own question after reading this post, separate SVMs it is!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-Storage-Protocols-Discussions/NAS-SVM-Seperate-NAS-LIFs-per-node/td-p/132180/jump-to/first-unread-message" target="_blank">https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-Storage-Protocols-Discussions/NAS-SVM-Seperate-NAS-LIFs-per-node/td-p/132180/jump-to/first-unread-message</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:06:29 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Better-to-have-SAN-and-NAS-SVMs-Separate/m-p/136741#M30136 hello-jon 2017-12-14T18:06:29Z