Dell-EMC
E20-880 · Question #25
Your customer has a Microsoft SQL installation on a VMware guest Windows 2008 Server using VMFS. The ESXi server uses a VNX system. The VMFS has been properly aligned with the physical disk. What…
The correct answer is A. Alignment is automatically handled by Windows. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
Your customer has a Microsoft SQL installation on a VMware guest Windows 2008 Server using VMFS. The ESXi server uses a VNX system. The VMFS has been properly aligned with the physical disk. What would you recommend to your customer to avoid misalignment between a partition used by the Windows 2008 Server and the underlying physical disk?
Options
- AAlignment is automatically handled by Windows.
- BUse an NTFS allocation unit size of 32 KB and an offset value of 1024.
- CUse an NTFS allocation unit size of 64 KB and an offset value of 1024.
- DAlignment for the virtual disk is handled by VMFS.
How the community answered
(26 responses)- A85% (22)
- B8% (2)
- C4% (1)
- D4% (1)
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