The Volume Group is gather of Physical Volume & Logical Volume. It organizes Physical Volume(s) and Logical Volume(s) for using. The Physical Volume is its body to store data actually, and the Logical Volume is its organization to describe the feature of storage instance belongs to Logical Volume, such as format and position/size.The system detects LVM system by Volume Group. Section 3.1 Create Volume GroupTo create Volume Group, you need to select at least one Physical Volume not belongs to any Volume Group and select VG Operation -> Create in navgating bar to start creating wizard, of course you can select Volume Group after wizard started. Selecting desired partitions -- Multiple selecting is acceptable & Be careful do not select partition with valid data.To create Volume Group, user need to specify name of Volume Group and the Extent size.The name of Volume Group must be in 'a'-'z','A'-'Z','0'-'9','-','_'.And you can press Advance... button to change default settings of Volume Group. Usually user need not to change the default advance settings of Volume Group.Here we can set followed parameters: When all settings finished, press Done button on Creating Volume Group wizard to perform operation.After operation finished, Visual LVM shows follow dialog to inform user that Volume Group has been created. Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Are you sure you want to hide this comment? It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment's permalink. Hide child comments as well For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse - Tag of Volume Group : The characters of tag must be in 'a'-'z','A'-'Z','0'-'9','-','_'. Using comma to separate tags.- Meta Area size : This section is reserved for Volume Group meta information. The LVM identity Volume Group information via its meta information.- Max Physical Volume count in Volume Group : The count of Physical Volume can be added into current Volume Group.- Max Logical Volume count in Volume Group : The count of Logical Volume can be created in current Volume Group.- Metadata Copies : The Copies of Meta Area in Volume Group. Usually there is a meta area in every Physical Volume, and the Volume Group setting should be writed into every meta area, but for huge Volume Group, it spares time very much, so user can modify this parameter to let LVM manager writes less copies for performance.- System ID : To protect Volume Group, a Volume Group without system ID can be accessed by any user, but only autherized user can access Volume Group with system ID.