External encapsulation of a volume into a LUN to allow booting and installation on a complex volume
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Jun 20, 2005
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Nov 26, 2003
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A system for external encapsulation of a volume into a logical unit (LUN) to allow booting and installation on a complex volume may include a host, one or more physical storage devices, and an off-host virtualizer. The off-host virtualizer (i.e., a device external to the host, capable of providing block virtualization functionality) may be configured to aggregate storage within the one or more physical storage devices into a logical volume and to generate metadata to emulate the logical volume as a bootable target device. The off-host virtualizer may make the metadata accessible to the host, allowing the host to boot off a file system resident in the logical volume.
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