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Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions support for Oracle VM Server for SPARCFeatures65This powerful, centralized data migration functionality is available with StorageFoundation Manager 1.1 and later.Moving storage between physical and virtual environmentsBoot Image ManagementStorage Foundation can make painful migrations of data from physical to virtualenvironments easier and safer to execute.With Storage Foundation, there is no need to copy any data from source todestination, but rather the administrator reassigns the same storage or a copy ofthe storage for a test migration, to the virtual environment.Using Storage Foundation in this environment the user can utilize features suchas instant snapshots to contain boot images and manage them from a centrallocation in the control domain.FeaturesThis section describes some of the features in Oracle VM Server for SPARC usingthe products in the Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions.Storage Foundation featuresThe following features apply for Storage Foundation.The vxloadm utility enables access to a file system containedin a VxVM volume from the Control DomainThe vxloadm utility lets you access a file system contained inside a VxVM volumefrom outside the guest domain, that is from the Control Domain. This is done bymapping all the partitions contained within that volume using the vxlo driver.The partitions can then be mounted if they contain valid file systems.