Slightly OT: First Time KVM and LVM on Centos

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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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