Mindaugas Kiznis

TOGAF study material

MK — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:50:09 +0000

Recently I was getting more into the Enterprise Architecture topic and one of the areas I was investigating was TOGAF – The Open Group Architecture Framework. I have noticed that TOGAF is getting more and more recognition in the market and also it was interesting to me to compare how different IT architecture frameworks are [...]

Fedora 14 on VMware and VMware Tools

MK — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:57:05 +0000

If you have tried to install VMware Tools on a VMware ESX (probably Workstation too) Fedora 14 virtual machine, then you probably noticed that there are no suitable pre-compiled VMware Tools modules available for the kernel version that the Fedora runs and also it is not that easy to make the modules to compile from [...]

Cisco Nexus 1000V and packet loss

MK — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:18:53 +0000

The Cisco Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch for VMware vSphere infrastructure brings quite a significant advantage to the networking implementation of the virtual environments. Comparing to the standard VMware vSwitch and DVS virtual switches, the Nexus family virtual switch adds most of the functionalities in the virtual environment that are found in today’s physical switch [...]

Performance tuning Linux virtual machine

MK — Sun, 16 May 2010 15:14:46 +0000

For my personal, development and testing purposes I am running around ten Linux virtual machines. Those are mainly based on RedHat Enteprise Linux / CentOS version 5. The virtualization platform setup is nothing close to exclusive – an IBM x345 server running VMware ESXi 3.5, custom-made NAS box based on OpenSolaris with ZFS. All together, [...]

VMware Tools HGFS and Terminal Services profile issue

MK — Sun, 02 May 2010 12:25:46 +0000

The VMware Tools is a good set of optimized virtual device drivers and utilities for the virtual machine environment. If during VMware Tools setup the complete installation option is chosen, the shared folders, or HGFS, functionality will be included together with all the essential components. However, HGFS is not supported on ESX and the bad [...]

“Could not initialize Opera” – Opera Mobile 10

MK — Sat, 01 May 2010 17:37:15 +0000

Lately I have been using some custom Windows Mobile 6.x ROMs on my phone and today after a fresh flash I noticed that the Opera Mobile 10 (final build) installation gives me a “Could not initialize Opera” error prompt, when trying to start the browser. As it seems, Opera did not include locale file for [...]

Cannot enable EtherChannel on port 14 of the IBM blade system

MK — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:43:38 +0000

A specific discovery. If you are using IBM BladeCenter system with Cisco 3120X / 3120G enclosure switches and face problems, when trying to enable EtherChannel on NICs of blade server at bay #14, then update the Cisco enclosure switch firmware to the latest version. It seems to be a bug and it was fixed several [...]

Technorati blog claim verification

MK — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:42:36 +0000

Update: Seems that I have to place M939Q5QR3TVV somewhere in the beginning, as the RSS feed is truncated and the Technorati crawler cannot get it. Still playing… I was always and still am interested in all kind of management, marketing strategies and how some of them seem to make to have an enormous influence on [...]

Microsoft Windows NT 4 on VMware vSphere – networking problems

MK — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:00:20 +0000

It is correct, that the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 is already “end-of-life” for quite some time, but believe me – there are still some systems on Earth running it. And still, VMware ESX / ESXi 4.0 supports it as a guest operating system. But, the sad part is that the VMware Converter 4.0.1 does not [...]

VMware vSphere Communication Map

MK — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:56:09 +0000

Recently I got several questions from my colleagues, asking about the TCP/IP ports various VMware products uses and how they interact with other components. A good guide is provided by VMware in their knowledge base – VMware KB 1012382 – where all the communication between the VMware components and their dependencies are described in writing. [...]

VMware Converter and failed P2V migrations

MK — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:20:28 +0000

Successful server migrations to the virtual environment is an essential part of all virtualization initiatives. In this post I will try to consolidate some experience and information about VMware Converter conversion process problems and possible solutions. Some consolidated general tips from VMware that could help to solve problems that could occur during migrations to virtual [...]

VMware vCenter 4 database migration

MK — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:02:57 +0000

There could be several situations, which would require to move the VMware vCenter database from one SQL server to another. Here is an action plan for moving the VMware vCenter database properly (by VMware): To move the vCenter database from one SQL server to another, please follow the steps below: 1. Take a backup of [...]

Lotus Domino Web Access & View XML Output

MK — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:11:14 +0000

I do not imagine how popular is Lotus Domino / Notes tandem as an e-mail, collaboration solution, but I am sure that I have to use it on a daily basis. There are things that I do not like about it, but there are some good ones that make the day. One of such is [...]

VMware ESX 4.0 Kick-start

MK — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:36:57 +0000

Congratulations to me and my first public blog post – now I can truly say that I am very much into nowadays IT things (though a little bit late, I guess…). During the days I had a lot of things to do with VMware vSphere. My virtualization journey started due several reasons, which are not [...]