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Optimizing and Troubleshooting: Hyper-V Storage
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Optimizing and Troubleshooting: Hyper-V Storage

by Mitch Tulloch
July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
152 pages
3h 22m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 5. File system alignment

File system misalignment will only be a problem if you are using Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 as an operating system for virtual machines that are stored on a storage attached network (SAN). This is not just a Hyper-V problem; it will also occur for other hypervisors. Thomas Roettinger explains how to identify and deal with this issue.

Identifying file system misalignment

Working with a virtual environment also means working with different layers of storage. Windows Server systems running Hyper-V include the following layers:

  • File system inside a VHD/VHDX

  • NTFS on the host

  • LUN

For the best possible performance of your storage subsystem, you want the file system inside the VHD, the NTFS file system of the host, ...

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