Diskpart or Diskpart for Physical Windows 2003 Server

Question

I'm just doing a reality check. I know that in VMware, it is recommended to use DISKPAR (no T) on a VMFS partition, even if the OS is Windows 2003. However, I'm just trying to verify for a physical box, DiskPART is still recommended:

diskpart
select disk 2
create partition primary align=64

nandas · Accepted Answer

It is recommended to use diskpar.exe utility on Windows hosts. Please refer to "EMC CLARiiON Best Practices for Fibre Channel Devices" for more details.

However, as per my understanding, for basic disks - you can still use diskpart.exe as you mentioned, but not for dynamic disks.

I'll prefer to use diskpar.exe if it is available.

Hope this helps. Have a great weekend.
Thanks,
Sandip

RRR · Answer

Both tools do the same when it comes to aligning partitions. You can even align dynamic disks with a little trick. Simply search on Google for aligning disks and you'll get so many hits, it's very easy to find out how this works.

DiskparT has some extra features, which diskpar doesn't have, but aligning they can doo both. the result is the same.

CLARiiON

Diskpart or Diskpart for Physical Windows 2003 Server

Was this post helpful?