SVM - Storage array migration effort

We have several Solaris servers which have both internal drives not under SVM control and Array based SVM devices built into filesystems.
We need to do 2 things:
1) Migrate internal drives to Array based luns
2) Migrate existing SVM luns to new storage array.
I found and read through the Admin guide for SVM, and it appears to address "migration" only in relation to creating a mirror for an existing volume.
What I would like to do is replace (or mirror) the underlying devices of an existing filesystem, not the entire filesystem at the top level.
Im much more familiar with Linux LVM, where I would add new PV's to an existing VG and use the pvmove command.
I don't see a similiar capability in Solaris 10 LVM so wanted to check with the more experienced folks on how to proceed with this array migration effort.
Thanks

We are moving from an 10+ yr old HDS to a new VNX.
While EMC can physically move the data, I don't have any way to change the config on the SVM (that I know of) to use the new devices.
AFAIK I would have to do the migration at the SVM layer in order for the FS to be properly linked to it's underlying LUNS.
As for the existing FS on the local disk, that can be done by umounting the FS and moving, but I don't see an easy way to migrate the root volume without a rebuild of the root filesystem...

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Ap_Id                          Type         Receptacle   Occupant     Condition
c0                             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c0::dsk/c0t0d0                 CD-ROM       connected    configured   unknown
c1                             scsi-bus     connected    configured   unknown
c1::dsk/c1t0d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c1::dsk/c1t1d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c1::dsk/c1t2d0                 disk         connected    configured   unknown
c2                             fc           connected    unconfigured unknown
c5                             scsi-bus     connected    unconfigured unknown
c6                             fc           connected    unconfigured unknown
c7                             fc-fabric    connected    configured   unknown
c7::500805f3000186d9           array-ctrl   connected    configured   unusable
usb0/1                         usb-device   connected    configured   ok
usb0/2                         unknown      empty        unconfigured ok
usb1/1                         unknown      empty        unconfigured ok
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