Storage Management with LVM

Open-source LVM is a storage management tool that abstracts storage into several layers that can be controlled and manipulated to give you the control you need over your storage devices. This Linux-Mag report discusses the features and options for using Logical Volume Management.

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"I’ve been on a quest for good open-source storage management tools. These tools, preferably a single tool, would allow me to create, control, and monitor all aspects of storage whether it be iSCSI based storage, NAS, local file systems, users, etc. It would be independent of the hardware yet have the ability to interact with many types of hardware such as RAID cards (the ones supported in the kernel) and networking devices (focused on storage networking). Alas, such a beast does not exist (at least that I can find) and the question of whether such a beast should exist is open for debate. However, in the absence of such a tool I decided to look for what tools are available. The one that I kept coming back to was LVM (Logical Volume Management)."

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