Windows 2008 disk alignment
Hi I have moved this blog to the new site frankdenneman.nl.
The new home for this article is: http://frankdenneman.nl/2009/05/windows-2008-disk-alignment/
Apologies for the inconvenience!
Categories: VMware
Align, Alignment, Boundary, Cluster size, diskpart, diskpart script, NTFS, Partition, Starting partition offset, Virtual Machine, vmdk, VMFS, VMware, Windows, Windows 2008
I am wondering WHERE i can get this 2008 diskdiag.exe? It is not installed by default, nor exist in support tools folder. Do You have it in Your system – how You installed it?
Brilliant post. Have been revisiting Disk Alignment this week and this really helped.
Thank you very much, have linked you from my blog.
How does one decide what the alignment should be for Win2k8 VMs??
For most usages in smaller environments will the 1024 alignment be acceptable??
Thank you, Tom
Tom,
I prefer to use the KISS method and stick to the defaults.
Let Windows decides what’s best.
The disk alignment is just a starting point, what’s more interesting is the allocation unit to use on the NTFS partition.
The allocation unit mostly depends on the requirements of the application who is using the partition. Consult the application documentation to find out the sweet spot.
Great article!
Do you know if any software has been written that adjust the offset without destroying the data in the partition?