Microsoft released a short whitepaper about how scaling-out queries to a SSAS database leveraging on SAN snapshot features. It’s an interesting read if you have a SSAS database with many users and don’t have the time to copy a database on several servers.
Originally appeared on: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/marco_russo/archive/2007/09/12/ssas-scale-out-with-san-snapshot.aspx