Alignment of disc - Windows 2003 Server and NetApp

I recently installed a couple of the virtual machine that will host Lotus Domino providing mail to about 400 users per server.

Virtual machines on ESX 3.5 HP DL585 4 * Quad Core with 32 GB memory, 2 * 6 HBA * NIC with a drive of 15K FC NetApp 3140c storage

I created a VMDK file for Notes data and used a PART of DRIVE to create the partition sho it is aligned on 64 k blocks and then formatted the partition with blocks of 32 KB (in line with the alignment of disc).

When I look in disk management, the partition created by using the PART of the DISC is a base and not on a dynamic Partition partition.

My qustion is... If I change the partition to dynamic it cancel alignment jobs and produce a slower reaction of the I/O?

Thank you

Expansion VMDK and getting Windows to use space extra is also really easy too and can be done while the virtual machine is online (except the system drive, but it's just a little more effort)

I would recommend avoiding dynamic disks. Where I work, we have thousands of Windows servers and I never remember coming across with dynamic disks.

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