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40 Dell EMC SC Series: Best Practices with VMware vSphere | 2060-M-BP-V
Figure 23 shows an example of a fully aligned partition in the SC Series where one guest I/O will only access
necessary disk sectors.
Fully aligned partition in SC Series storage
Figure 24 shows an example of an unaligned partition in a traditional SAN where alignment can improve
performance.
Unaligned partition in a traditional SAN