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VM Check Alignment Tool

Posted on March 11, 2011 Updated on March 22, 2017

**Update 09/2016 — This 2011 version of the alignment tool wasn’t quite accurate, it was solely based sector alignment for EMC storage and I believe the author made several adjustments based on user feedback and comments.  The current version seems to do a better job, but you don’t need any tools to check alignment just read this blog I wrote as it’s so simple to check **

Original Post below —

A work colleague led me to this program the other day.

This tool couldn’t be simpler to use.  Download the EXE, place it on our VM and Click Check Alignment.

It’s a real quick way to ensure your aligned…
TIP:  Don’t assume Windows 2008 is aligned out of the box, as you can see here this VM needs to be aligned…  It’s out of alignment because of the deployment/unified server image process used to push the OS to the VM.  READ this blog for more information

2008 R2

2003

Unforutnally, this tool is no longer availible for download.