All Linux sysadmin books tell about the awesomeness of LVM. But is actually anyone using it? On a desktop it adds needless complexity - you only need boot, (efi), swap, root and perhaps home. You ...

I need to build a new mysql server to replace an aging one. This server will drive a LAMP website. While I am at it, this would be a good time to consolidate that whole site under one kvm server.