Believe I finally am able to wrap my mind around why Partition Alignment is not a factor for VMs created by and running on Workstation vs ESX, on Workstation any data partitions would be at or within the file level whereas defined partitions on ESX appear to be fixed and static physical configurations (someone correct me if I'm wrong here).
If I understand this correctly, then what are the consequences of converting a Workstation VM to run on ESX? It seems to me that any data partitions which might have been running at or within the file level on Workstation could potentially be running in its own partition on ESX. If this is so, can it be assumed that approved VMware utilities automatically configure the beginning of the partition accordingly (assume some multiple of 128 instead of 64)? Or, at least in the case of an OS like *NIX would this concern be irrelevant because the partition type would be Linux instead of VMFS?
Basically, I'm looking for any gotchas involved when doing a Workstation/ESX conversion, at least on the topic of Partition Alighment there doesn't seem to be any documentation or mention anywhere I can find (but maybe it's just not an issue).
TIA,
Tony
