Re: [Xen-API] XCP 1.6 and 4k alignment

2013-05-07 Thread George Shuklin
I done some digging in VHD format, so here some information: Every VHD consists from chunks 2M+4k size (2*1024*1024 + 4*1024 bytes). Payload is aligned, bitmap (512 bytes not aligned, but padding bytes at the begin of the chunk solve the problem). IO on underlaying storage is aligned, but can

[Xen-API] 4K alignment for SSD?

2013-05-07 Thread dominic . ryan
Hi All, Just wondering does XCP create 4k aligned partitions when configuring partitions on local storage for use for VM's? If not, is there anyway I can manually do this? I've just started using an SSD with XCP 1.6 and IOmeter is reporting less than half of the IOPS I should be seeing with t