LDOM 1.1 migration with boot disk on zfs volume

I have a big disk and set up a few zfs volumes for guest domains.
Have anybody successfully configure LDOM 1.1 to migrate guest domains
between two hosts when guest domais are on zfs volumes.
The two hosts shares the FC LUN through SAN.
Any suggestions?
cm

Can you provide a working example of this? I fail to see any benefit of using files as bootdisks via NFS. It seems you will need a new bootdisk file (approx. 12g for our env.) for every ldom guest. First, how do you save storage space? Then, how do you manage additional storage devices for applications which require a small amount of additional disk space (say 50g)? If you use file allocation (mkfile on NFS allocated to an ldom) then you've gotten yourself into potentially disastrous performance issues (virtual guest storage -> virtual I/O management -> file -> NFS -> ZFS -> SAN Luns). The only solution to the problem as I see it is to use a clustered file system, which is not currently a viable option for the following reasons:
1. Veritas CVM does not support Branded Zones in an ldom = we can't use it
2. ZFS is not a cluster file system
So, this begs the question, what is the "Best Practice" for setting up ldom environments (with migration ability) from a storage perspective? What is the Sun recommendation on this?

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So here's the epilogue to my story.
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