Morning all
We are likely going to be replacing our storage environment with one supplied by a new vendor.
Our current Vendor has a recommended Cluster size of 4k. So all our VMDKs are configured with a 4K cluster, size happy days.
The new vendor we are investigating however recommends 8k.
So I've been considering v2v`ing our server estate to the new platform, modifying the block size in the advanced features tab of VM-converter in the process giving us system's formatted with 8K blocks.
There is however an MS Requirement that the System drive remains at 4k (otherwise it wont power on). Its that pesky little 100Mb partition..
Now comes the rub;
The 100mb System partition, forms part of the first Disk ( C:\ ). If I P2V the first disk with a cluster size of 8k I of course get a non-bootable server.
When in fact I actually want to v2v Disk 1 ( C:\ ). As 8kb but leave the little 100Mb system partition alone with its default of 4kb, However because they form part of the same disk, and converter seems to work at the disk level and not the Partition level, Converter just wants to do them all which is a problem.
Any ideas on how to accomplish the above...
Cheers
P