eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by VmgDiskAlignTest

This test reports the alignment status of the every disk partition on each Windows VM on a vSphere/ESX host.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Disk_align_status Indicates whether this disk partition is aligned or not.   If the partition is unaligned, this test reports the value Partition is not aligned. For an aligned partition, this test reports the value Partition is aligned.

The numeric values that correspond to the above-mentioned measure values are described in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Partition is aligned 100
Partition is not aligned 0

Note:

By default, this measure reports one of the Measure Values listed in the table above. The graph of this measure however will represent the disk alignment status using the numeric equivalents - 100 or 0.

If a partition is found to be misaligned, you can use the detailed diagnosis of this test to figure out the caption, device ID, logical partition name, and block size of the faulty partition.