I have the UEFI/boot partition followed by an LVM PV. If it's a VM, data disks just get the whole disk, though I still usually set up LVM because it enables stuff like live storage migrations. I've actually had to do those more than once in production; one migration involved moving several terabytes of data used by a hardware server from an aging SAN onto physical disks and iSCSI. It required no downtime.

I haven't really had to worry about partitioning on any Linux machine I manage for over a decade thanks to LVM; I just create volumes based on what makes sense for the applications hosted on the servers.