Joffer's Notepad

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!

UBERAlign is a free tool (console+vApp) for aligning partition on virtual machines http://nickapedia.com/2011/11/03/straighten-up-with-a-new-uber-tool-presenting-uberalign/