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Re: 4k alignment

 
jchen522
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4k alignment

When creating a volume in Alletra with vSphere 8 using VMFS6, is there anything you need to do special to ensure 4k alignment? 

Usually I just choose the performance policy "VMware ESX 5"

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buzzsubash
HPE Pro

Re: 4k alignment

Hi @jchen522 

Performance policy VMware ESX 5 should be fine here, as the block size is set to 4 KiB. 
You may verify this from the array UI by navigating to Manage>Performance Policies


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