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Glossary

  • Physical Volume

    Physical volumes are basic storage devices in LVM and are created based on EVS disks and LVM management parameters.

  • Volume Group

    A volume group concatenates physical volumes into a large storage pool that can be consecutively addressed.

  • Logical Volume

    Logical volumes are obtained by partitioning the volume group according to the logic.

Parent topic: Implementation Procedure