VM Server Install - use all available disks?

Hi,
We have a DELL XPS with 2 x 1.5tb disks and an i7 processor and we are going to use this machine as a mini VM Server. When we do the install of Oracle VM Server 2.2.1 we aren't sure how to setup the disk partitions so that Oracle VM can see all the availabel sapce (the whole disk) on both of the disks?
It seems to default to create an OCFS2 file system (to mount as /OVS) using 1.4tb of the first hard disk and then leaves the second as "Free Space".
I am not very familiar with OCFS2 - but - I have a rough idea of what I want to do (conectpually at least). I want the space to appear as though it was a logical volume and be available to VM Manager and miounted as /OVS
Does this make sense - and can anyone offer any pointers on how we utilise both hard drives in a single machine.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Bren

The simplest solution is, as you suggested, creating an LVM volume group, and create one large lv.

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