Hello,
We have a new iSCSI SAN with multiple partitons,
On the server in a cluster we are running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (Alll patches) and SQL 2008 R2 SP2
SQL Server 2008 R2 Baseline Configuration Analyzer 1.0 and the system returned with this warning
Category: Configuration
Source: localhost
Issue: On most storage systems, hard disk partitions are configured optimally when they have a starting offset of 65536 bytes, or a multiple of 65536 bytes. Hard disk partitions with starting offsets which differ from this recommendation were detected - [ Volume Identifier : Disk #5, Partition #1, Starting Offset : 17408 ], [ Volume Identifier : Disk #2, Partition #1, Starting Offset : 17408 ], [ Volume Identifier : Disk #6, Partition #1, Starting Offset : 17408 ], [ Volume Identifier : Disk #3, Partition #1, Starting Offset : 17408 ], [ Volume Identifier : Disk #7, Partition #1, Starting Offset : 17408 ], [ Volume Identifier : Disk #4, Partition #1, Starting Offset : 17408 ]
Impact: Incorrect partition alignment can result in adverse I/O performance impacts on SQL Server queries and operations
Resolution: Consult with your hardware vendor to optimally partition storage volumes on RAID devices. Pay primary attention to storage volumes that contain user database files, tempdb and msdb database files, and transaction log files
I ran the following command.
wmic partition get BlockSize, StartingOffset, Name, Index
From this article.
This what was returned with that command.
BlockSize Index Name StartingOffset
512 0 Disk #1, Partition #0 1048576
512 0 Disk #5, Partition #0 135266304
512 1 Disk #5, Partition #1 17408
512 0 Disk #2, Partition #0 135266304
512 1 Disk #2, Partition #1 17408
512 0 Disk #6, Partition #0 135266304
512 1 Disk #6, Partition #1 17408
512 0 Disk #3, Partition #0 135266304
512 1 Disk #3, Partition #1 17408
512 0 Disk #7, Partition #0 135266304
512 1 Disk #7, Partition #1 17408
512 0 Disk #4, Partition #0 135266304
512 1 Disk #4, Partition #1 17408
512 0 Disk #0, Partition #0 1048576
512 1 Disk #0, Partition #1 105906176
Any idea if they are misaligned or are they good, I know Windows 2008 R2 should not need to be realigned, but just want to confirm if we have an issue, and how do we resolve it.
Also wanted to add, that Disk 2-7 are on the SAN and are basic disks, with GPT partitions.
Thank you,