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Encrypting storage volumes ensures that sensitive information is protected, even if physical devices are lost or stolen. This post will guide you through encrypting KVM volumes as LVM logical volumes on Debian 12. We’ll cover setting up LVM, encrypting the volumes with LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup), and integrating them into your KVM setup.
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When managing virtual machines (VMs) in a Linux environment, using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) with Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) provides several benefits. LVM offers flexibility and control over storage allocation, while KVM, combined with virsh, offers a robust virtualization solution. This guide will walk you through the process of setting up LVM logical volumes for your KVM guests using virsh.
LVM stands for Logical Volume Manager, it is a tool for file system and disk management on Linux. It can work in different ways like allocating whole devices, but the general usage is putting the LVM on a partition. One of the most common System [Engineer|Administrator] and DevOps interview topic is creating and resizing LVM volumes.
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