A Storage Partitioning feature allows running different operating systems to access a single . Host operating systems can be completely different operating systems (such as Solaris) or variants of the same operating system (such as Windows 2000 clustered, and Windows 2000 non-clustered). When a is specified, it allows the in the storage array to tailor their behavior (such as reporting and error conditions) depending on the operating system or variant of the host sending the information.