Hi List! We use AutoYaST to set up SLES11 servers, both in VMs in an ESX 4.1 environment and on physical servers (HP proliant). Since we have an ESX cluster, we use shared storage on a SAN. As I read in some docs and discussions on the web it is recommended to make a correct alignment when partitioning disks, both for the VMFS's on our SAN and the guest OS disks (vmdk) and even for the LUNs of the proliant RAID crontrollers. Concerning a VMFS on a LUN in our storage the alignment is automatically done when the VMFS is created by VI client / vCenter. Concerning other disks (proliant RAID and VMDK) there are only instructions how to align disks manually before installing - manually. We know people have different opinions about the necessity of aligning boot disks rather than data disks. But despite this discussion, we'd like to know if there's a way to do the alignment during automatic installation. According to our profiles AutoYaST [re]creates the needed partitions. And we think preparing the necessary partitions prior to installing and then use the existing partitions with AutoYaST is not an option, because we sometimes "reuse" servers which might have been partitioned with a different partitioning scheme. What I read from the doc, there is no parameter for the alignment in the <partition> ... </partition> tag. Since alignment is done on an existing partition Pre-Install Scripts are to early and Postpartitioning Scripts seem to late. So, are there any other suggestions? Or is this a feature of an upcoming version? Maybe someone can tell about his/her everyday practice? Thanks in advance! Greetings from Berlin Thomas Zimolong Federal Ministry of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany Z 6 - Server/Client/Storage Alt-Moabit 101 D D-10559 Berlin Fon +49(0)30 18 681 2383 Fax +49(0)30 18 681 -5- 2383 mailto:thomas.zimolong@bmi.bund.de http://bmi.bund.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org