Exchange Server 2010 - DAG - Physical and Virtual

Hi All,
we are trying to configure Exchange Server 2010 SP1 DAG with TWO Servers, we are getting the error sector size on log file header was mismatch
1) Physical Server -  when we check the sector size on log file - 512 bytes   (RAID5)
2) Virtual Server  -  when we check the sector size on log file - 4096 bytes
is there any workaround to solve this issue or do i need to re-install the physical server with 4096 sector size..
When i check the Volume details on both machine
1)
Bytes Per Sector  :               512
Bytes Per Physical Sector :       <Not Supported>
Bytes Per Cluster :               4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment    : 1024
2)
Bytes Per Sector  :               512
Bytes Per Physical Sector :  4096
Bytes Per Cluster :               4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment    : 1024
MCITP

Hi Jared,
I've got a question regarding your answer.
We have an existing Exchange 2010 DAG configuration with 3 mailbox servers in NL and 3 in the UK.
2 for normal databases at each site and 1 for Archive databases at each site.
The current Mailbox servers for the Archive databases are Hyper V 2008 R2 based VM's with a passthrough for storing the databases.
We now want add 1 new Mailbox server for storing archive databases at each site and add them to the DAG.
Can we use Windows 2012 Hyper-V hosts and create the new VM's with 4k sectorsize vhdx files for the new mailbox servers ?
Regards
Misha Verhoeven 

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