A while back I wrote an article on checking your disk alignment and even changing the disk alignment from the service console. Since then a lot of people asked me for the exact link, because I don’t have a now.NetApp.com account I wasn’t able to provide it. Today I received an email from the developer, Eric Forgette, with a link to a community article which contains links to both tools, mbralign and mbrscan.
Eric is also the one who developed RCU(Rapid Cloning Utilities). I just watched the demo video on youtube. In short: It’s a vCenter pluging which enables you to deploy hundreds of VDI desktops by utilizing the capabilities of the array. Keith Aasen wrote a blog article on this plugin which has some more details. I guess with the vStorage API coming up we can expect more vendors to add storage capabilities to the vCenter GUI, think snapshots / clones and more…
Hi Duncan,
Thanks for the RCU plug. I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that a team of talented folks here at NetApp were involved in the creation of the Rapid Cloning Utility. I am lucky enough to be working with them on the project!
Cheers,
-Eric
It still seems that you need a netapp serial to get to the tools section that gives you mbralign
so not public yet