What is a valid failover policy for a SAN LIF?

In ONTAP SAN concepts, SAN LIFs (used for iSCSI, FC, NVMe/FC) behave differently from NAS LIFs. SAN access relies on multipathing at the host level, not LIF failover within the storage system. Because of this architectural design, SAN LIFs are configured with a failover policy of disabled.

When a SAN LIF goes offline, ONTAP does not move the LIF to another port. Instead, the host multipathing software (such as ALUA for iSCSI or FC multipath drivers) redirects I/O to another available path. This design ensures predictable path behavior and avoids unexpected changes that could confuse host multipathing logic.

Failover policies such as broadcast-domain-wide or local-only are valid only for NAS or management LIFs. The system-defined option is not a valid failover policy value.

Therefore, the only valid failover policy for a SAN LIF is disabled, making A the correct answer.