Brandon Lee

Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com and has over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, Brandon has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family.
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    What is Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Azure Edition?

    There were many new announcements that came from the Microsoft Ignite conference in 2021, one of which was Windows Server 2022. However, there is a new Azure-specific Windows Server 2019 Datacenter operating system called Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Azure Edition.…

  • vSANLeaving the vsan cluster from the command line

    Force Delete vSAN Datastore from ESXi Host

    VMware vSAN provides an incredible technology that allows combining local storage from multiple ESXi hosts to form logical storage for both virtual machines and modern technologies such as containers. With VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2, VMware has continued to push…

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    Create an EC2 Instance Using Terraform

    Public cloud infrastructure provides powerful capabilities, features, and functionality for today’s enterprise as it allows businesses to access the hyperscale infrastructure of today’s cloud service providers. They can build their own infrastructure on top of the same environment that Amazon,…

  • VMwareMultiple scsi controllers to vmdk mappings

    Find Which VMDK your Windows Server Disk matches

    Have you ever been in the situation of needed to extend a Windows Server hard disk in a VMware vSphere VM and was unsure which disk to extend? This is especially the case if you have multiple disks that are…

  • vSANVerifying on disk format version 14 for vsan 7.0 update 2

    Upgrade to VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2 Step-by-step

    With the release of VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2, many great new features are contained in the VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2 release. You can take a look at my post here to see the new features offered by the…

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    Failed to Load Crypto64.efi ESXi 7.0 Update 2 Fix

    It wasn’t just a few days ago that VMware released the new vSphere 7.0 Update 2 release to the world. It includes tremendously powerful new features and capabilities, including a long list of new features in both vCenter Server as…

  • vSphere 7Creating a new upgrade baseline for vsphere 7.0 update 2

    VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 ESXi Upgrade

    After you have upgraded to vCenter 7.0 Update 2, the next step to getting your environment updated to native vSphere 7.0 Update 2 is upgrading your ESXi hosts. There is a lot of new capabilities found in the vSphere 7.0…

  • vSANImproved performance with vsan 7.0 update 2

    VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2 Top New Features

    With the update to vSphere 7.0 Update 2, one of the great new updates contained in this release is vSAN 7.0 Update 2. The new vSAN 7.0 Update 2 release contains a long list of new enhancements and features that…

  • vSphere 7Vmware vcenter 7.0 update 2 brings a new vsphere client interface redesign

    VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 2 New Features

    Today was big news on the VMware front. VMware today released VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 to the masses. This new release has improvements across the core VMware vSphere stack, including vCenter Server, ESXi, and VMware vSAN. For this blog…

  • VMware MonitoringDrilling into the performance of an esxi host

    Virtualization Monitoring with NetCrunch 11

    There is no shortage of monitoring solutions on the market that allow businesses to manage their business-critical resources, including virtualized environments. Monitoring is a key task supporting business-critical operations in the enterprise. Arguably, monitoring is even more important with virtualized…