vSphere Guest OS Partition Alignment

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_partition_align.pdf
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/04/08/aligning-your-vms-virtual-harddisks/
http://www.storage-switzerland.com/Articles/Entries/2011/10/27_Improving_VMware_Storage_I_O_Performance_By_Realigning_Partitions.html
http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Unaligned-I-O-A-storage-performance-killer
http://blog.shanonolsson.com/2013/08/24/a-new-method-for-changing-virtual-disk-i-slash-o-alignment-with-vmdk/
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/08/guest-os-partition-alignment.html