As far as I know vscl don't actually align the vm (vmdk file ) like mbr align rather its create a new volume with an offset to match the vm offset you can think of it as creating a new misalign volume On this volume a misalign vmdk ( assuming the same offset for the vm and volume ) will be aligned but on normal volume it will be misaligned
If you want the vm to be aligned with normal volume you will have to take it offline and run mbralign on it The vsc solution was meant to give a temporary solution for vm that cause performance issue and that cannot be shutdown for maintenance
On 4 בפבר 2013, at 21:47, "Scott Eno" s.eno@me.com wrote:
Hi,
We're trying to get some VM's aligned in our NFS-based VMware environment using the "online" alignment tool packaged in VSC. Since we are NFS, the tool needs a VMFS datastore to use to align the VM. When we run the tool and it moves the VM to the VMFS datastore, the VM no longer shows up as misaligned.
However, if we move the VM back to an NFS datastore, it shows up as misaligned again.
So, is this a one-way trip? NFS --> VMFS, but that VM can never go back? _______________________________________________ Toasters mailing list Toasters@teaparty.net http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters