Do you really need 250 GB for the VM Hypervisor? VMWare ESX will boot off a USB flash drive. If you're using Linux KVM you would ideally want to have a minimalistic install anyway. A good Linux console only live distro doesn't even fill a single 700 MB CD. Unless you're doing something else on your VM host I would give it a small system partition. Limited space keeps temptation at bay. Personally I like things as simple as possible and would most likely just do one big volume. If you wanted to future proof the installation you could setup LVM so you can easily add disks/storage to your server down the road (via external array, JBOD enclosure, NAS, SAN, whatever), but my experience has been that we end up justifying the new servers and storage and end up doing new installs on the new hardware anyway, so the benefits of LVM don't end up justifying the extra complexity. YMMV of course. -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us IT Outhouse Blog Thing | http://www.itouthouse.com