https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/eva8000-63kb-offset/m-p/4071687#M24869 Hi All, I heard about a 63 or 64 KB or MB not sure which that needs to be offset when installing a brand new EVA8000 XCS600.<BR />anyone know about this ?<BR /><BR />Thanks Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:37:08 GMT Sajeev2007 2007-09-17T14:37:08Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/eva8000-63kb-offset/m-p/4071687#M24869 Hi All, I heard about a 63 or 64 KB or MB not sure which that needs to be offset when installing a brand new EVA8000 XCS600.<BR />anyone know about this ?<BR /><BR />Thanks Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:37:08 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/eva8000-63kb-offset/m-p/4071687#M24869 Sajeev2007 2007-09-17T14:37:08Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/eva8000-63kb-offset/m-p/4071688#M24870 I suspect you're referring to the old best practive for Windows on an EVA where you adjusted the starting block offset of a newly created Vdisk before you used it. With XCS 6.xxx that no longer applies. This is taken from the latest EVA Best Practices White Paper:<BR /><BR />"Old best practice: Microsoft DiskPar utility is required for optimum Windows performance with the EVA.<BR />Previous versions of EVA firmware poorly handled the case when transfers were not 2K-aligned. This alignment requirement was eliminated with the 5.xxx versions of XCS. The use of DiskPar neither enhances nor detracts from EVA sequential performance." Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:35:17 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/eva8000-63kb-offset/m-p/4071688#M24870 Mark Poeschl_2 2007-09-17T16:35:17Z