Comments on: Virtual Infrastructure best practices

By: Haim Chibotero

Haim Chibotero — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:17:40 +0000

Very good article and to the point, a real life saver.
Now that ESX is going to die, I would recheck the partitioning section and update it as need

Erik, thanks for this sharing.

Haim Chibotero
http://chibotero.blogspot.com --> iPhones in Israel & more

By: Erik Scholten

Erik Scholten — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:08:22 +0000

No, not yet but I think the best practices don't change much with the arrival of vSphere 4.1.
I will review the best practices after my holiday.

By: Jsb1022

Jsb1022 — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:35:13 +0000

Anything newer??

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By: Erik Scholten

Erik Scholten — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:48:00 +0000

You’re welcome.

1) Idd, partitioning only applies to ESX.
2) In my opinion this is certainly a ‘must’ although I have seen virtual infrastructures with misaligned disks which are not affected due to the low load on the environment. In stressed environments this will have more affect and you should align the partitions to get the best IO performance.

Keep in mind that there are two locations/disk/volumes to align.

First of all you should align the datastore/VMFS. Just use the vSphere client to create your datastore, this automatically does it for you.

Second you should align the virtual machine partitions in the vmdk disk.

By: Erik Scholten

Erik Scholten — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:48:00 +0000

You’re welcome.

Keep in mind that there are two locations/disk/volumes to align.

First of all you should align the datastore/VMFS. Just use the vSphere client to create your datastore, this automatically does it for you.

Second you should align the virtual machine partitions in the vmdk disk.

By: Jaap

Jaap — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:25:11 +0000

Hi Erik,

Thanks for the article.
Two questions though:

1.) The part of “partitioning” only applies to the use of ESX and not ESXi?
2.) During my search on partitioning I stumbled on a (few) posts on aligning
partitions, because it has an impact on performance.
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1326824#1326824
Is this a ‘must do’ ?

Thanx Jaap

By: Jaap

Jaap — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:25:00 +0000

Hi Erik,

Thanks for the article.
Two questions though:

Thanx Jaap

By: Erik Scholten

Erik Scholten — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:21:29 +0000

These are best practices I collected during the last 6 to 7 years since I work with VMware ESX/VI. I can’t remember where I found what best practice or from which colleague I heard it .