This whitepaper from Greg Lowe talks about the important strategy behind disk partition alignment. This is focused mainly in SQL Server, but this is equally important in the SSAS world. There are lots of times when we have a tendency to think about something only for DBA’s or for SQL Server Engine functionality, but partitioning is something the should be considered by the developers and admins together to make sure the developers know what kind of partition scheme they will have to work with, and the admins know what till be expected of them, etc..
This should provide a start to that discussion.
