1. A method comprising: associating, with a processor, a first virtual device with a plurality of storage devices and a second virtual device with a physical device element, wherein the first virtual device is a multicast group of logical partitions distributed over the plurality of storage devices; assigning, by the processor, the first virtual device a first host address and the second virtual device a second host address, wherein the first and second host addresses are different network addresses that are both associated with an address that corresponds to a network interface, and wherein the network interface communicatively couples the processor to a network; and responsive to an information packet received from the network interface, the information packet having a control portion including the first host address, routing, by the processor, the information packet to the first virtual device.