Export a backup copy of your IIS 7.0 configuration

To export a backup copy of your IIS 7.0 configuration on a Windows 2008 Server:

Open Server Manager

Expand Roles – Web Server (IIS) – Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager

Highlight the web server name

From the Management category, double click Shared Configuration

Under Actions, select Export Configuration. Accept or change the default export path of C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\config\export

Click the Connect As button, and enter administrative credentials. If the server is a domain member, you may need to enter your credentials in the format domain\username or username@domain.com

Enter the encryption keys password twice and press OK

You should now have three files in the C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\config\export directory: administration.config, applicationHost.config, and configEncKey.key. Save the files in a safe place.

Watch that VG rename

Little reminder to myself, never rename a volume group that a system boots from and forget to change grub.conf and fstab, kernel panic made me panic till I realised what I'd forgotten!

Moving FT catalogs from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008

Ok, so you want to migrate your FT catalogs from the SQL 2005 folders to new ones in SQL 2008.

When you detach DB from 2005 make sure you select the option to save the FT catalogs.

Move the physical catalog files to the new path for SQL 2008, to see where they currently are try this:

select * from sys.master_files where type = 4

When reattaching SQL 2008 will complain the files are not found so then point to the new locations and it should all work fine!

IIS7 site and file synchronisation for web farms

If like us you have web farms of several machines serving a site in a cluster you may have come across the Microsoft Web Deployment tool.

This great bit of software allows you to sync all sites and their files from a master machine to all other members of the cluster automatically.

We have come across problems when a non administrator account is used for synchronising though.

To get round this we use the Web Management Service and a slightly different command line to sync with.

First, make sure the Web Management Service is on automatic and in Server Manager expand out the Roles/Web Server (IIS)/IIS Manager and choose the server instance, in the Management panel under Management Service you can enable remote connections. Then start/restart the service.

We then use a command line in this format:

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:webServer,wmsvc=192.168.0.1,username=user1,password=password1,includeAcls=true -dest:webServer,wmsvc=192.168.0.2,username=user2,password=password2 -enableLink:AppPoolExtension -allowUntrusted=true

As you can see the wmsvc service is used to authenticate, NTLM is the default authentication and if like us you use cloned servers the -allowUntrusted just bypasses the need to have an authorised certificate on the destination servers.

Just run multiple times in a batch for all the servers in the cluster and everything is all in sync!

Server 2008 - remove old NICs so you can rename new NICs properly

Start a command prompt as administrator

Execute the following:

SET DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1

START DEVMGMT.MSC

When device manager opens choose 'show hidden devices' from the 'view' menu.

You can then right click and uninstall any old NICs (shown as greyed out)

This is always a problem for us when cloning VMWare machines!

Reset machine ID for WSUS clients

Good article on how to reset the machine ID for an imaged client so WSUS will see as an individual machine.

reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate /v AccountDomainSid /f
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate /v PingID /f
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate /v SusClientId /f
net stop wuauserv
net start wuauserv
wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow

Open excel 2007 docs in multiple windows

Remove Excel 2007 annoying you by opening multiple xls files in the same window, this will open a separate instance when you double click an xls file.

My Computer
Tools
Folder Options
File Types
Choose XLS (or XLSX if you want)
Go to Advanced

Uncheck "browse in same window" in advanced window.

Then highlight Open
Edit

Make sure in the Action box it says &Open

Copy the following and paste into "application used to perform action":

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE12\EXCEL.EXE" "%1"

Check the box next to use DDE

Remove anything that is in DDE Message box and DDE Application Not Running box.

Make sure the application box says: EXCEL

And in the Topic box it says: System

Quick fix for tables marked as crashed in MySQL

First off stop the MySQL database server:

/etc/init.d/mysql stop or service mysql stop

Go into the directory where the tables are stored:

cd /var/lib/mysql

Check each database for errors:

myisamchk -cs a*/*.MYI

If errors found then run the fix:

myisamchk -r a*/*.MYI

Once all checked and repaired, restart the service:

/etc/init.d/mysql start or service mysql start

Installing VMWare open tools on RHEL5/Centos5

To install the latest VMWare open tools for RHEL5 or Centos5, first create a new file:

/etc/yum.repos.d/vmware-tools.repo

And put this in it:

[vmware-tools]
name=VMware Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/[esx-version]/rhel5/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://packages.vmware.com/tools/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-KEY.pub

Replace [esx-version] with 3.5u2, 3.5u3, 3.5u4, 3.5u5, 4.0, 4.0u1, 4.0u2, or 4.1, depending on the ESX/ESXi version.

Then use yum to install the server version, as no gui tools needed.

yum install vmware-tools-nox

Verify installation by:

service vmware-tools status

Should be shown as running, if not then use same command above but 'start' instead of 'status'

You should be able to see for the guest that VMWare tools is shown as 'Unmanaged' so tools will need to be updated on each guest manually.

How to monitor an LSI MegaRAID controller within OpenFiler

Use wget to download the MegaCLI package from LSI you need the MegaCLI - Linux version

Extract the files eg.

rpm2cpio MegaCli-8.00.11-1.i386.rpm | cpio -idmv

and make sure you move the binaries into /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/

cd /etc/cron.hourly

Create a new hourly script to check the drives and send an email alert if there's a problem

vi MegaRAIDcron

#!/bin/bash
cd /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli
./MegaCli64 -AdpAllInfo -aALL | grep "Degraded" > degraded.txt
./MegaCli64 -AdpAllInfo -aALL | grep "Failed" >> degraded.txt
cat degraded.txt | grep "1" > /dev/null
if [[ $? -eq 0 ]];
then
./MegaCli64 -LdPdInfo -aALL | mailx -s 'Degraded RAID on '$HOSTNAME -r $HOSTNAME@youremail.com alert@youremail.com
fi

:wq

chmod 775 MegaRAIDcron

You can test this works by running the script manually but replace the grep "1" on the 5th line with grep "0" so it'll send an alert if there are 0 failures instead of 1. Don't forget to change it back!

This script was adapted from this post on the Openfiler forums.

You can also send a daily/weekly overview email (to make sure it's still working!) by creating a similar file as above in the cron.daily or cron.weekly folder.

#!/bin/bash
cd /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli
./MegaCli64 -LDInfo -Lall -aALL >/tmp/MegaCli64.txt
mailx -s 'RAID INFO on '$HOSTNAME -r $HOSTNAME@computerlove.co.uk -v -a /tmp/MegaCli64.txt you@youremail.com

Removing Linux server headers

Quick reminder to remove Apache and PHP server headers:

Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Find ServerTokens and change to ServerTokens Prod

Edit /etc/php5/php.ini
Find expose_php and change to expose_php = Off

This will make sure fingerprinting a server for vulnerabilities is slightly reduced.

HP Hard disc model matrix

Useful list of all HP drives and their part numbers, great for checking if a current P/N is a replacement for existing drives, especially as the single port drives are now being replaced with dual ports.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00305257&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=397642#A4

Converting VMDK files to thin provisioned

To convert VMDK files in ESX/ESXi you'll need to login via SSH and run this command in the datastore.

vmkfstools -i fatdisk.vmdk -d thin thindisk.vmdk

Don't forget to either rename the existing disk (and edit meta data) or change your VMX file afterwards to point to the new disk.

Does take a considerable time though!

IIS Metabase update to set processor affinity for an IIS application pool

If you wish to give an application pool the ability to only use certain processor cores when running download the free IIS Metabase editor.

Within each application pool you add 2 new identifiers:

MD_APPPOOL_SMP_AFFINITIZED - as an inherited server string 'true'
MD_APPPOOL_SMP_AFFINITIZED_PROCESSOR_MASK - as an inherited server number, this needs to be mask of the CPU cores in binary converted to decimal, for instance a 4 core server can use 3 to signify the first 2 cores to be used only.

Restarting management agents for ESXi from command line

This was a pain, we had three ESXi servers all stop responding at the same time, the console restart didn't work but as SSH was enabled we could run this command to restart the management agents and then VC/VIC would work again.

All this without disrupting running guest machines.

/sbin/services.sh restart

Fix for VMWare tools install failure with error 1722

Found fix on VMWare communities, most annoying when setting up a new machine that's a P2V transfer.

1. Open registry editor, locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\COM3, and then delete this key.
2. From the Start menu, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then click Add/Remove Programs.
3. Click Add/Remove Windows Components.
4. Proceed through the wizard, and accept all of the defaults. (COM is reconfigured)
5. Restart the computer.
6. Install Vmware Tools

Reminder: temporary change to enable a proxy for system updates

For systems not internet accessible such as SAN's on isolated switches, enable a proxy to do system updates whilst temporarily connecting switch to standard network.

Rpath example:

export http_proxy="http://10.141.12.254:80"

To remove the proxy for when system is going into production:

unset http_proxy

Vote for Code at the Big Chip Awards

Please vote for Code Computerlove at the Big Chip Awards '09 for the 'Tasty website' award!

We are up for 2 sites but we'd love you to vote for Original Source.

Just text SOURCE to 84433, it's just the cost of a normal text.

Thanks!

Update: Hurrah! We won the 'Tasty website' award for Original Source, thanks to everyone who voted! We also won Best On-line Brand Development for Crown Paint.

Useful reminder of disk alignment boundaries

Remember alignment at the 64k boundary, without proper partition alignment performance degradation occurs especially noticeable on high I/O disks.

Summary:

• Select a disk in DISKPART
• create partition primary align=64
• Check with msinfo32/System info
  
• Note: If your using 2003 enterprise or datacenter edition there is a bug where you receive an error when trying to format, the work around is to assign a drive letter in disk part and then format
  

http://planetlotus.org/4ba99f

A billion year ultra-dense nanotechnology memory chip

Long term read/write archival storage without degradation of media unlike traditional storage, but able to be used with standard computer systems.

They reckon this'll be on the market within the next couple of years, the storage density is thousands of times higher than current technology.

http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=10999.php

Disaster-proof storage device?

US based company offering fireproof and waterproof drives, both internal and external. Perfect for disaster recovery situations for ultimate piece of mind!

They even do NAS storage devices that can withstand an hours fire and 30 days in water!

http://iosafe.com/

HP warranty and care pack checking tools

Handy tools from HP to make sure your equipment is covered by warranty or that the care packs you've registered are applied properly.

http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/ewarranty/warrantyInput.do

http://www.hp.com/uk/carepack/

Little reminder as well, UK066E is 3 year 24/7 4 hour support for BL460's and UH311E is for the C3000 enclosures with the same cover.

What are the best practices when it comes to VMWare ESX Server 3.5 and Open-E?

Whitepaper on best way to setup iSCSI targets from within ESX using Open-E, but still applies to any iSCSI SAN.

http://kb.open-e.com/entry/4/

VMware ESXi problem with NIC teaming and CARP with virtual firewall/router

Very tricky one to track down why a failover firewall configuration would never promote it's CARP IP's to MASTER status.

Turns out you must only have a single NIC on a vSwitch with a guest VM being used as a MASTER for CARP, otherwise will always show as BACKUP.

Can't even have a NIC in the standby list, 2nd NIC has to be completely removed.

There may well be a setting in the advanced options somewhere that might get this to work, if anyone has done this please let us know!

Setting up a High Availability NAS/SAN using Openfiler

Setting up a High Availability NAS/SAN using Openfiler

Run through on configuring DRDB to run a high availabilty cluster using Openfiler

http://www.the-mesh.org/tiki-index.php?page=OpenFilerHaSetup

Getting higher iSCSI throughput on VMware

As we are using iSCSI SANS at our datacentres, this is a very interesting article on getting higher iSCSI throughput under VMWare.

http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/01/a-multivendor-post-to-help-our-mutual-iscsi-customers-using-vmware.html

rPath appliance setup

If like us you don't have a DHCP server running at your datacentres, then an rPath appliance can be tricky to setup.

Easiest thing to do is edit these files at the console to get a static IP assigned.

vi /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=xxxxx
GATEWAY=1.2.3.4

vi /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 1.2.3.4
nameserver 4.3.2.1

vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=1.2.3.255
IPADDR=1.2.3.4
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=1.2.3.0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet

Restart networking and then you can get to the appliance config screen with your static IP.

Also the admin is usually out of date so as root you'll need to do a conary updateall and a restart to get all the latest updates.

Low cost HP ESXi server for lab testing

If you need a cheap as chips server for lab testing but still want to use an official HP server that is on the ESX/ESXi HCL then look no further than the ML350 G5.

It can be picked up for £571.76 from imldirect.com.

This is a low spec dual core Xeon but it does have the HP Smart Array E200i and will support 6 SAS/SATA drives, only comes with 1GB RAM but RAM is cheap.

We'll be using in our lab with the HP USB embedded ESXi for testing etc.

HP product code is 470064-100.

Convert old VMWare server disk directly to ESX/ESXi format

Rather than use Converter which isn't altogether reliable especially with converting multi-disk servers, convert the disk directly and upload straight to the datastore.

Here's how to make the transition easy, assuming all your disks use LSILogic or BusLogic drives:

On your vmware server host, use "vmware-vdiskmanager -r (source disk path) -t 2 (destination disk path)" to convert your disk to "monolithicFlat"
Open "disk.vmdk" it is just a text file
Change "monolithicFlat" to "vmfs" and change "FLAT" (note the case!) below that to "vmfs".

Just add the disk to the ESX/ESXi VM and boot!

Reference: IIS6 Metabase properties

Force WSUS update

Force WSUS client update

here is what you would put in a script to force immediate WSUS checkup by client:
--------
net stop wuauserv

REG DELETE "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v LastWaitTimeout /f

REG DELETE "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v DetectionStartTime /f

Reg Delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v NextDetectionTime /f

net start wuauserv
-----------
A more lightweight command:
wuauclt /detectnow

Moving VM's in VMware ESXi via SSH

VMware ESXi is a great product but it present's a number of challenges because of its highly streamlined feature set. Lets say for example you need to move a VM from one VMware server to another and don't have an NFS server or iSCSI target. And of course you don't have any of the licensed features like Backup or Vmotion either. Lets add another challenge that you only have SSH access to the system. Sounds like a fun challenge already.

Both machines need SSH enabling, then in the directory where the disk files are stored you can use SCP to copy to the other machines datastore.

scp * root@hostname:/vmfs/volumes/datastorename/vm-dir

Interesting binary diff tool, would help enormously for our daily backup's to SAN

Need to investigate tools such as these to save space on offsite daily backups especially databases.

Do a monthly full on first of each month then daily backups are diffed against the original. At any point a previous day backup can be regenerated from the 2 files.

I'll have to do some testing on the many terrabytes of storage to see just how much we could save! In theory savings of at least 50% size could be possible, especially with large mainly static databases and site files.

UPDATE:

Tried this and found that especially databases are never exactly the same data in the same place so it doesn't quite work out, also takes a very long time and so not really usable for daily backups.

This is not really as critical as SQL Server 2005 now has differential backup and site files are backed up with a full monthly and then incremental daily changes. This is keeping our backup sizes down small enough to not run out of space on our backup NAS drives.

Event log error fix for RS errors after SQL 2005 installed

If you get errors in the event log saying this not long after a new install of SQL Server 2005 standard or enterprise:

.NET Runtime Optimization Service (clr_optimization_v2.0.50727_32) - Failed to compile: Microsoft.ReportingServices.QueryDesigners, Version=9.0.242.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91 . Error code = 0x80070002

To Fix, drag
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\Microsoft.ReportingServices.Design.dll
to
C:\WINDOWS\assembly

To install the offending library to the GAC.
Double check all is fine:

C:\WINDOWS\microsoft.net\Framework\v2.0.50727\ngen executeQueueditems

Most annoying...

New switch upgrade? Need fibre GBICs

HP ProCurve Switch 2824 - Switch - 24 ports - EN, Fast EN, Gigabit EN - 10Base-T, 100Base-TX, 1000Base-T + 4 x mini-GBIC (empty)

The HP 24-port ProCurve Switch 2824 with 20 10/100/1000 ports has 4 dual-personality ports for 10/100/1000 or mini-GBIC connectivity.

Ideal for medium to large networks, the Switch 2824 cost-effectively offer the maximum in bandwidth performance with 10 times the speed of 100 Mbit switches. Migrating to Gigabit switches will allow you to take full advantage of your existing high-performance, Gigabit-enabled PCs, laptops, and servers - and see noticeably improved application response and file transfer times. By implementing the Switch 2824, you will seamlessly protect your existing network investment while preparing for future growth.

Product : HP ProCurve Switch 2824 - Switch - 24 ports - EN, Fast EN, Gigabit EN - 10Base-T, 100Base-TX, 1000Base-T + 4 x mini-GBIC (empty)

Buy Price: £845.00

Mfr Code : J4903A

Alternatively 2810, still stackable and layer 2 as well, code is J9021A, cheaper at about £559

Or 2510 gigabit version, identical specifications as the 2810 but about £360, code is J9279A, not stackable though, but used as dual connectivity with MPIO iSCSI SAN it wouldn't matter!

Switching 64bit server to run 32bit IIS exclusively

To switch a 64 bit 2003 server to run IIS in 32 bit mode and .Net framework 2.0 in 32 bit you need to run:

cscript %SYSTEMDRIVE%\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 true

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727>aspnet_regiis -ir -enable

Nice runthrough of how to get Openfiler SAN working correctly with ESXi

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/168021

Will report back on how this goes once we have our new SANs setup. Critically need to make sure NIC teaming is working fully.

Maximum single LUN size to ESXi and MS initiator (XP 32bit) is 2097120 MB

Handy list of MS KB articles to refer to

Network Load Balancing Connection to a Virtual IP Address Not Made Across a Switch
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;247297

Objectdock stack

If you're a user of Objectdock on the PC, if like me you're in Windows 99% of the time but miss the interface of OS X there is a handy stack docklet that lets you have folder stacks like Leopard.

http://matias.securityconsultant.com.ar/StackDocklet-preview.zip

ESXi backup to remote datastore by snapshots

This looks interesting as a free backup solution, once I get some time I shall be investigating this instead of our current backup of backing up the VM directly.

UPDATE:

This idea has been progressed further and looks like a better method is here:

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760

Backing up ESXi at image level

This looks interesting as they are working on a ESXi version of their backup software. Also reasonably priced as well...

esXpress v3.1 The ONLY scalable and completely fault tolerant backup, restoration and disaster recovery solution for Virtual Infrastructure 3.x. Whether you have 1TB of data or 50TB, esXpress makes a 100% complete backup of your entire virtual farm every night.

Country blocking lists in various formats

Very useful to block the spammers even includes bogon ranges. Updated every 24 hours.

Country IP Blocks now offers Network Data in 7 Separate Formats: CIDR, Netask, .htaccess deny, .htaccess allow, IP Range, Decimal/CIDR* and Hexadecimal/CIDR. You decide who can access your websites and servers.

Block a country, allow a country. Now you can take complete control of your website and network traffic. IP Blocks are a simple and effective way to improve security by limiting spammers, hackers, bandwidth wasters or malicious traffic.

Handy app for blocking IP address ranges in IIS

One to investigate, especially to stop form spammers from China etc.

MS article for registry settings for WSUS 3

As servers in the datacentres are categorised for applying patches to help automate the process all servers have registry keys assigned to pick up updates centrally. This Technet article shows what each of the registry entries does.

How to patch ESX3i using command line

3 various approaches on how to patch your running ESX3i to the latest version.

How to get XPx64 to change a site's .Net level

Easy one this, just get the site ID from IIS, no need for MetaEdit.

Run from the appropriate .Net folder under c:\windows\microsoft .net\framework\....

aspnet_regiis -sn W3SVC/99999/ROOT/

VMWare appliance to run a Cacti station

Using this in production, a few slight problems but on the whole pretty damn good!

Need to watch out if an unclean shutdown that /usr/opt/apache/logs/httpd.pid is removed for the apache daemon to run on reboot, can always check to see if httpd process is running and restart if necessary.

Also need to watch disk space, logs etc. can eat them up, check with df -h that capacity isn't all used up.

Easy one to release space is the cacti.log file, just remove from /usr/opt/apache/htdocs/cacti/log

PRTG monitoring

The freeware only monitors 10 devices but it's enough for setting up for a single client.

Found this a bit fiddly and prefer Opmanager, there is an older version that allows you to monitor 20 devices, not available for download anymore but keeping on my FTP server.

ftp://ftp.mechanised.com/software/ManageEngine_OpManager_6_windows2.exe

Handy HP Part numbers for ordering

437502-B21
HP BLc3000 Single-Phase Enclosure w/2 Power Supplies and 4 Fans w/8 Insight Control Environment Trial Licenses - Rack-mountable - power supply £1,902.96

UH311E
Electronic HP Care Pack 4-Hour 24x7 Same Day Hardware Support - Extended service agreement - parts and labour - 3 years - on-site - 24 hours a day / 7 days a week - 4 h £483.84

410917-B21
HP GbE2c Ethernet Blade Switch - Switch - 16 ports - EN, Fast EN, Gigabit EN - 10Base-T, 100Base-TX, 1000Base-T 5x10/100/1000Base-T(uplink) - plug-in module £685.00

406740-B21
HP 1Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module - Expansion module - Gigabit EN - 1000Base-TX - 16 ports £399.00

437572-B21
HP - Power supply - redundant - 1.2 kW £128.00

412140-B21
HP Active Cool Fan - Fan unit £69.00


AK502A
HP ProLiant BL460c - Blade - 2-way - 1 x Quad-Core Xeon E5440 / 2.83 GHz - RAM 4 GB - hot-swap 2.5" - no HDD - Gigabit Ethernet - Monitor : none £1,006.49

431958-B21 & 432320-001
HP Single Port - Hard drive - 146 GB - hot-swap - 2.5" - SAS - 10000 rpm £130.00

397413-B21
HP - Memory - 4 GB ( 2 x 2 GB ) - FB-DIMM 240-pin - DDR2 - 667 MHz / PC2-5300 - Fully Buffered - ECC

UK066E
Electronic HP Care Pack 4-Hour 24x7 Same Day Hardware Support - Extended service agreement - parts and labour - 3 years - on-site - 24 hours a day / 7 days a week - 4 h £245.25

445978-B21
HP NC360m Dual Port 1GbE BL-c Adapter - Network adapter - PCI Express x4 - EN, Fast EN, Gigabit EN - 2 ports £165.00

406771-B21
HP NC326m PCI Express Dual Port 1Gb Server Adapter - Network adapter - PCI Express x4 - EN, Fast EN, Gigabit EN - 10Base-T, 100Base-TX, 1000Base-T - 2 ports £105.00

378343-002
HP/Compaq SFF Small Form Factor 2.5inch SATA / SAS drive Tray / Caddy

BL460c
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12518_div/12518_div.html

HP SAS Enterprise and SAS Midline Hard Drives
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12244_div/12244_div.html

Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 146.8GB 15,000rpm 16MB SAS 3Gb/s Hard Disk Drive

Overview

Technical Description: Seagate HD Cheetah 15k.5/147GB SAS 15Krpm 16MB - ST3146855SS (Components Internal Hard Drives)

The fifth-generation Cheetah 15K.5 enterprise hard drive features innovative perpendicular recording technology, setting new standards for 15K-RPM drive capacity, performance and reliability. The Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 hard drive is the first to break the 100-MB/s sustained transfer rate barrier. These drives lead the industry in reliability, performance and value by delivering higher throughput with fewer drives than conventional 10K-RPM solutions . The Cheetah 15K.5 enterprise hard drive sets a new standard for storage cost effectiveness with an unprecedented blend of storage performance, capacity and reliability.

Warranty: 1 Year Warranty

Features

# 16-MB cache
# Perpendicular recording technology for maximum capacity
# Up to 125-MB/s sustained transfer rate
# 30 percent more IOPS than 10K 3.5-inch drives
# Reduced RAID rebuild times
# Highest reliability rating in the industry
# Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
# 5-year warranty
# Number of pins on the I/O connector - 5

Specification
Disk Size: 3.5 Inches
Disk Capacity: 146.8GB
Disk Speed: 15000RPM
Data Buffer: 16384KB
Interface: SAS 3Gb/s SAS
Data Transfer Rates: 300MB/s
Heads: 4
Performance
Average Latency: 2.0ms
Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF): 1.4 Million Hours
Environmental
Acoustics (Idle Mode): 3.2dB
Operating Temperature: 5 to 55°C
Relative Humidity: 5 to 95%
Vibration (Operating): 0.5 Gs
Shock (Operating): 60Gs for 2ms

Electrical
Power Requirement Idle (Ready): 11.2Watts

Physical
Enclosure type: Internal
Dimensions: 10.185cm (W) x 14.699cm (D) x 2.611cm (H) - Weight 0.839kg