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We have netapp sans. Ef 550 and 8040 cluster. How can I make the storage aligned with os &nbsp;?
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We have netapp sans. Ef 550 and 8040 cluster. How can I make the storage aligned with os  ?

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You align the OS partitions to the storage. Not the storage to OS.
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You align the OS partitions to the storage. Not the storage to OS.

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very good replies, thank you all, experts!
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very good replies, thank you all, experts!

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I have a question from my coworker, he is the oracle DBA. <br />
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He asks me &quot;Did the OS disk partition aligned in the VMs built for this purpose as well as in the template, RHEL5U8_ORAC11gRAC_temp?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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what is the alignment ? what is the benefits of doing it. <br />
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Please advise, thank you.
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I have a question from my coworker, he is the oracle DBA. 

He asks me "Did the OS disk partition aligned in the VMs built for this purpose as well as in the template, RHEL5U8_ORAC11gRAC_temp?

Thanks,
"

what is the alignment ? what is the benefits of doing it. 

Please advise, thank you.

what is storage alignment, what is the benefits of it.

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.

Storage

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.