A Storage Area Network (SAN) is highly scalable. It allows for the addition of more storage devices and servers without disrupting the existing network. This flexibility enables organizations to easily expand their storage capacity as their data needs grow.
For example, a company might initially deploy a SAN with a certain amount of storage to meet its current requirements. As the company expands and generates more data, it can simply add additional storage arrays or disks to the SAN without needing to reconfigure the entire storage infrastructure.
In the context of cloud computing, Tencent Cloud offers services like Cloud Block Storage (CBS) that provide scalable block-level storage volumes for use with Tencent Cloud virtual machines (CVMs). This allows users to dynamically adjust their storage capacity according to their needs, similar to how a SAN can be scaled in a traditional IT environment.