nt invention for handling a server failure. [0020]FIG. 6 is flow diagram of a method according to an embodiment of the present invention for adding or removing shared storage. [0021]FIG. 7 is a flow diagram of a method according to an embodiment of the present invention for managing a storage area network. [0022]FIG. 8 is a flow diagram of a method managing a storage area network in a first node a