A bootable volume is a Shared Storage Volume (SSV) with an operating system image pre-installed.
A bootable volume is a Shared Storage Volume (SSV) with an operating system image pre-installed. If a virtual machine is created from a bootable volume, it can access the data saved on the volume and use its operating system. It's important to note that a bootable volume can only be attached to a single virtual machine at a time due to the lack of support for parallel access to a single disk by most operating systems and file systems.
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