Determining the right size for your VMware VMFS data stores
Choosing a virtual disk type for VMware ESX: Raw, thick and thin disks
Using VMware Converter to resize virtual disk files (Pt. 1)
Increasing virtual disk partition size using DISKPART or GpartEd (Pt. 2)
Extend boot volume of Windows 2003 VM
Moving Virtual Disks to or from ESX Server
ESX Server Raw Device Mapping
Performance Characteristics of VMFS and RDM (ESX 3.0.1)
Performance Characteristics of VMFS and RDM using a SAN (ESX 3.5)
What VMware features work on RDMs and which don’t?
Keeping your Disks Aligned
Web based VMDK descriptor file creator
Mbrscan/mbralign
Aligning disk partitions to boost virtual machine performance
Recommendations for Aligning VMFS Partitions
Best Practices for File System Alignment in Virtual Environments
Storage Block Alignment with VMware Virtual Infrastructure
Storage Alignment and VMFS Block Sizes
VMware Virtual Machine File System: Technical Overview and Best Practices
What causes VMFS volumes to get resignatured?
VMFS Best Practices
Understanding VMFS volumes
VMFS Volume Management
VMFS – Best Practices, and counter-FUD
VMFS Storage Sizing for Maximum Performance
