Should I use LVM for RHEL installed on a virtual machine?

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Issue

  • Installing RHEL as a virtual guest and need to decide on using LVM or not

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
  • VMWare ESX(i)
  • Microsoft Hyper-V

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