We run a big share of Xen virtual servers spanned over multiple servers and if you want to use the full or best capability of Xen, I would suggest LVM (Logical Volume Manager), it makes life a lot easier, especially for those who do not run a RAID setup (We run RAID10 on all VM nodes) as you can split the partition over multiple hard drives. I’m not going to cover setting up the LVM as there are loads of tutorials on how to do that but I will rather cover the best way to migrate a LVM volume.
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