When designing a new private cloud platform, a cloud engineer wants to make sure the new hypervisor can be configured as fast as possible by cloning the OS from the other hypervisor. The engineer does

CAS (Content-Addressed Storage) is typically used for archiving and fixed content, not for high-performance operating system boot volumes for hypervisors.

NAS (Network-Attached Storage) provides file-level storage and is generally not preferred for hypervisor boot volumes due to potential performance limitations and lack of block-level access required for certain hypervisor features.

DAS (Direct-Attached Storage) refers to storage directly connected to a single server, which contradicts the requirement of not using local drives and sharing resources for cloning.

A SAN provides block-level storage over a dedicated network, making it ideal for hypervisors as it allows for high-performance shared storage that can be easily presented as local disks to multiple hypervisors. This setup facilitates rapid OS cloning and deployment by allowing new hypervisors to boot directly from a shared image or quickly provisioned storage volumes, eliminating the need for local drives.