Linux Logical Volume Manager provides a better method for managing your disks in the home and even more so in the datacenter. I briefly outlined some of the benefits afforded us by LVM2 in a previous article Linux LVM2: Flexible Local Storage Management. In this article I will provide you…
KVM Guests: Using Virt-Install to Import an Existing Disk Image
In my previous article KVM Guests: Using Virt-Install to Install Debian and Ubuntu Guests we identified how we can use the virt-install command to create a KVM VM and instead of using an iso or physical cd for the install media we can instead use a boot image from an…
Linux LVM2: Flexible Local Storage Management
Linux LVM provides a different way of looking at storage. On the server side this provides much more flexibility than standard disks with partitions. It allows us to migrate from old to new storage as well as expand the available storage to a particular file system easily (assuming that there…