Migrating data from physical servers to virtual machines can be painful. Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions products can make painful migrations of data from physical to virtual environments easier and safer to execute.

With Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions, there is no need to copy any data from source to destination, but rather the administrator reassigns the same storage or a copy of the storage for a test migration, to the virtual environment. Data migration with Storage Foundation (SF), Storage Foundation HA (SFHA), or Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA (SFCFSHA)can be executed in a central location, migrating all storage from an array utilized by Storage Foundation managed hosts.

Physical to virtual migration (P2V) requires migrating data from a physical server to a virtualized guest. The LUNs are first physically connected to the host, and then the LUNs are mapped in KVM from the host to the guest.

Without SF, SFHA, or SFCFS in the host, you must identify which storage devices with mapping to the guest. Putting SF, SFHA, or SFCFS in the host enables quick and reliable identification of storage devices to be mapped. If you are running DMP in the host, you can map the DMP devices directly. Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions products add manageability and ease of use to an otherwise tedious and time-consuming process.