Comments on: Check your VM’s alignment… http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/01/17/check-your-vms-alignment/ Building blocks for virtualization... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:22:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Duncan http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/01/17/check-your-vms-alignment/comment-page-1/#comment-2333 Duncan Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:47:16 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=1571#comment-2333 I don't know why it wouldn't be recommended. Just to be sure and out of consistency I would do it when creating a Template. I don’t know why it wouldn’t be recommended. Just to be sure and out of consistency I would do it when creating a Template.

]]> By: Jpratt http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/01/17/check-your-vms-alignment/comment-page-1/#comment-2332 Jpratt Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:44:04 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=1571#comment-2332 Just to clarify my previous posting since Duncan was in disagreement, I was referring to boot volumes/disks on vmfs luns - apols if there was any confusion!... :\ http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_partition_align.pdf Page 3 - Note: Aligning the boot disk in the virtual machine is neither recommended nor required. Align only the data disks in the virtual machine. Just to clarify my previous posting since Duncan was in disagreement, I was referring to boot volumes/disks on vmfs luns – apols if there was any confusion!… :\

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_partition_align.pdf

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Note: Aligning the boot disk in the virtual machine is neither recommended nor required.
Align only the data disks in the virtual machine.

]]> By: Jpratt http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/01/17/check-your-vms-alignment/comment-page-1/#comment-2329 Jpratt Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:49:13 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=1571#comment-2329 According to the VMWare docs, you do not need to worry about the OS partition alignment if your san luns are aligned properly on the ESX side... According to the VMWare docs, you do not need to worry about the OS partition alignment if your san luns are aligned properly on the ESX side…

]]> By: Tom http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/01/17/check-your-vms-alignment/comment-page-1/#comment-2327 Tom Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:38:44 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=1571#comment-2327 It does not look like NetApp wishes to be generous and make mbrscan/mbralign available to the general public. It does not look like NetApp wishes to be generous and make mbrscan/mbralign available to the general public.

]]> By: ArnoldR http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/01/17/check-your-vms-alignment/comment-page-1/#comment-2237 ArnoldR Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:24:13 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=1571#comment-2237 MBRAlign is not in the download at the moment.(only MBRScan) Hope they will be releasing that soon. MBRAlign is not in the download at the moment.(only MBRScan)
Hope they will be releasing that soon.

]]> By: Duncan http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/01/17/check-your-vms-alignment/comment-page-1/#comment-2236 Duncan Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:22:56 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=1571#comment-2236 Filer or not, you will still need to align your OS Filesystem. This tool will come in handy. Filer or not, you will still need to align your OS Filesystem. This tool will come in handy.

]]> By: ArnoldR http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/01/17/check-your-vms-alignment/comment-page-1/#comment-2235 ArnoldR Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:41:38 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=1571#comment-2235 http://now.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/kit_iscsi/esx/5.0/ You still need a NetApp account, but hey if you are not working with filers, why do you need the tool? http://now.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/kit_iscsi/esx/5.0/
You still need a NetApp account, but hey if you are not working with filers, why do you need the tool?

]]> By: Duncan http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/01/17/check-your-vms-alignment/comment-page-1/#comment-2228 Duncan Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:39:10 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=1571#comment-2228 there's no direct link... I don't have a netapp account so i can't help you out unfortunately... there’s no direct link… I don’t have a netapp account so i can’t help you out unfortunately…

]]> By: justme http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/01/17/check-your-vms-alignment/comment-page-1/#comment-2227 justme Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:26:25 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=1571#comment-2227 Anyone have a direct link to "Unified Host Utilities Kit"? Anyone have a direct link to “Unified Host Utilities Kit”?

]]> By: Robert http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/01/17/check-your-vms-alignment/comment-page-1/#comment-2224 Robert Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:15:30 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=1571#comment-2224 MBRScan and MBRAlign have been available to netapp customers for some time. One of our customers has netapp storage and when the consultant was up before xmas he took me through it and showed me how to use it. MBRScan and MBRAlign have been available to netapp customers for some time.

One of our customers has netapp storage and when the consultant was up before xmas he took me through it and showed me how to use it.

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