A company has a SAN with storage array has configured the LUN with RAID. The company needs local physical copies of the LUNS. Which technology should the company use?

Replication copies data to a separate, typically remote, storage system for disaster recovery purposes and does not produce local physical copies on the same array.

Clustering is a high-availability architecture for servers and applications, not a storage copy technique for duplicating LUNs.

Snapshots are virtual, pointer-based copies that reference original data blocks rather than storing independent physical copies - they remain dependent on the source LUN and are not true physical duplicates.

A clone duplicates an entire LUN by allocating real storage space equal to the source and copying all data blocks, resulting in a fully independent volume that does not reference or depend on the original LUN. This satisfies the requirement for a local physical copy because the cloned LUN can be read from and written to independently even if the source LUN is destroyed. Unlike snapshots, clones do not use redirect-on-write or copy-on-write pointers - the data physically exists in full on the array.