Wednesday, February 10, 2010

VMFS volumes block aligned?

Are your VMFS volumes block aligned? For optimal disk performance they should be. You can find out in the ESX Service Console with the following command:

fdisk -lu /vmfs/devices/disks/[vmhba_path]

A start value of 63 indicates no VMFS alignment (not the best)
A start value of 128 indicates VMFS alignment (great!)
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