Archive for April, 2011
Align Vmware Partitions on Live Windows Virtual Machines Using Ubuntu Without Deletion.
Windows 2003/XP P2V conversions and hastily created virtual machines have an issue with hard drive performance within VMware and some SANs. The issue is that 2003/XP, by default, organizes drive clusters around a 32k size but offsets them at the start of a drive. Vmware’s VMFS and SANs usually use large disk sectors, although, the smaller VMDK [...]