Use cases that are addressed by Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions in a PowerVM environment

Use cases where Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) Solutions products can improve the VIOS environment:

Table: SFHA Solutions for Virtual I/O use cases

Virtualization use case

Symantec solution

Implementation details

Live Partition Mobility

SFHA or SCFSHA in the logical partition (LPAR )

How to migrate a logical partition from one physical system to another

See About Live Partition Mobility (LPM) .

Physical to virtual migration

SFHA or SCFSHA in the LPAR

How to set migrate data from physical to virtual clients with NPIV

See About migration from Physical to VIO environment.

Boot device management

DMP in the VIOS

How to use DMP on the rootvg to simplify system administration and system reliability

See Using DMP to provide multi-pathing for the root volume group (rootvg).