Greetings -
I am a novice system administrator and will soon be purchasing a new server
to replacing an aging file server for my company. I am considering setting
up the new server as a KVM host with two guests; one guest as the Samba file
server and a second guest as a testing area. My old server was set up about
7 years ago and has a 5 disk raid 5 configuration without LVM. I understand
the benefits of using LVM and KVM in the right circumstances, but have never
used either of them. I have spent a couple of days over the last week
trying to understand how to setup a KVM host with guests, but there is an
area that I still don't understand; that is the relationship between the
underlying raid partitions, LVM, and allocating space to a host and guests.
Many of the standard search term combinations in Google don't seem to be
getting me anywhere. From what I have read so far I think that I want to
have my file server guest using a raw partition rather than an image file,
but I haven't found anything with examples or best-practices guidance for
partitioning or volume management with hosts and guest VMs. So I am hoping
that someone here can give me some pointers, or point me to some clear
how-to's somewhere. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Jeff Boyce
Meridian Environmental
www.meridianenv.com
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