Brandon Lee

Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He 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. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.

Windows Server 2022

Brandon LeeJune 14, 2021
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In-Place Upgrade Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2022

With the upcoming release of Windows Server 2022, many are going to be contemplating upgrading to the latest and greatest Microsoft Windows Server operating system. Some may have forgone the upgrade to Windows 2019, especially if they were already running…
VMware

Brandon LeeJune 11, 2021
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Best Practices to backup VMware vSphere Virtual Machines

While containers and containerized workloads are certainly gaining momentum with organizations redesigning business-critical applications for the future, the truth is, virtual machines are here to stay for the foreseeable future. Containers and VMs work well together for most critical IT…
Containers

Brandon LeeJune 10, 2021
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Run Docker Containers from Visual Studio Code

Containers are becoming more relevant to what everyone is doing these days in the enterprise. Businesses are developing microservice architectures for housing business-critical applications. As IT admins, virtualization admins, and IT Ops, we must be familiar with how to interact…
Networking

Brandon LeeJune 9, 2021
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How to use iPerf to test Internet Speed

It is important to check your Internet speed as you want to make sure you get what you pay for in terms of bandwidth. Residential connections are generally quite a bit flakier in terms of fluctuations you see in available…
Security

Brandon LeeJune 7, 2021
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VMware vCenter Server VCSA Remote Code Execution Exploited in the wild – VMSA-2021-0010 CVE-2021-21985

As a reminder to everyone and the danger of having unpatched systems, it is sobering to hear that the vCenter Server vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-21985 is being actively exploited. I had read the article here over the weekend showing the…
Windows Server 2022

Brandon LeeJune 3, 2021
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Automated Windows Server 2022 Packer Build

As Windows Server 2022 Preview is now officially released, I wanted to get my automated build of the Preview release in the home lab and ready to go for testing the newest Windows Server operating system. With this being said,…
Windows Server 2022

Brandon LeeJune 2, 2021
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Download and Install Windows ADK for Windows Server 2022

The Windows ADK is the goto tool used to deploy and manage images in Windows clients and Server. As each new operating system is released, you need to have the equivalent ADK to interact with the images for the new…
Software Defined Storage

Brandon LeeJune 1, 2021
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Add NAS to VMware ESXi with StarWind SAN & NAS Free

Recently StarWind release a totally free SAN and NAS appliance that allows quickly spinning up a storage appliance based on various types of storage, both physical and virtual. This new appliance is totally free to download and provision. It makes…
Windows 10

Brandon LeeMay 28, 2021
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Install Winget 1.0 Windows 10 and upgrade all software

Have you found yourself spending lots of time trying to keep your software on a management workstation up-to-date? If you are like me, you probably use a myriad of tools, software, utilities, tools, and many other things in your management…
home lab

Brandon LeeMay 27, 2021
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Copy VMware Workstation VM to ESXi: Home Lab

When it comes to building your first home lab, there is nothing wrong with starting out with VMware Workstation. Realistically, this may be all you need. Having a decent workstation or laptop with a good bit of RAM running VMware…