Microsoft documentation about Netsh AdvFirewall Firewall Commands . You'll also find the entire chapter Netsh Commands for Windows Firewall with Advanced Security which describes the Consec, Firewall, MainMode and Monitor commands in each section
Short but good article from VMWorld 2011 #GD21 - vSphere Guest OS Partition Alignment http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/08/guest-os-partition-alignment.html So we have Windows Vista, 7, Server 2008, RHEL/CentOS 6 that aligns automatically. W2K3 doesn't!
A good article and a good followup comment (by Matt) on how to grow a linux partition in Linux when you use LVM2: http://lonesysadmin.net/2009/01/02/how-to-grow-linux-virtual-disks-in-vmware/