Running on EMC Clarion CX4 – Windows reports disks are not aligned, SAN admin says that because of caching, the partition alignment from windows does not matter (and SAN is setup per “best practices”. Is this true?
Caching has nothing to do with disk alignment. It sounds like your sysadmin should have gone to my SQL PASS pre-con. All the caching does is accept the writes from the host into D-RAM instead of writing to the disk directly. Now if the LUN is aligned on the array by setting the offset on […]