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Author: 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.
Server Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
Monitoring

Server Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Many great free and open-source monitoring solutions are available for monitoring your servers and applications. In case you have not heard about the free and open-source monitoring solution, Prometheus, we…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 26, 2023August 3, 2024
Hyper-V Virtual SAN synchronization with StarWind Virtual SAN
Software Defined Storage

Hyper-V Virtual SAN synchronization with StarWind Virtual SAN

The StarWind Virtual SAN solution is one of the easiest ways to run software-defined virtual SAN in Hyper-V. It has many great features that were recently updated to provide an…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 24, 2023January 17, 2024
VMware Resource Pool vs Cluster Comparison
VMware

VMware Resource Pool vs Cluster Comparison

There are many different constructs as part of the VMware vSphere environment with vCenter Server and ESXi. VMware vSphere provides many excellent capabilities and tools as part of the vSphere…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 23, 2023January 22, 2024
Proxmox scripts PowerShell Ansible and Terraform
Proxmox

Proxmox scripts PowerShell Ansible and Terraform

Proxmox is growing more and more popular, especially for home lab enthusiasts and those looking to spin up labs based on totally free and open-source software. Proxmox has a great…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 20, 2023December 18, 2023
Free Virtual Storage Appliance StarWind SAN & NAS new features
Software Defined Storage

Free Virtual Storage Appliance StarWind SAN & NAS new features

In the virtualized environment, we can use many great tools for storage resources. These include virtual storage appliances, especially to attach to running virtual machine instances in the environment, like…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 16, 2023October 25, 2023
Best docker containers for Synology NAS
Containers

Best docker containers for Synology NAS

I am a big fan of Docker containers and Synology NAS devices. The great thing about Synology NAS units with the Synology DSM operating system is it allows running docker…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 13, 2023August 3, 2024
HCIBench – Speedtest for VMware vSAN storage
vSAN

HCIBench – Speedtest for VMware vSAN storage

If you work with VMware vSAN and are looking for a benchmarking tool for your vSAN datastore, the HCIbench tool is the de facto standard for testing out your vSAN…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 9, 2023December 18, 2023
Windows Subsystem for Linux has no installed distributions
Windows Subsystem for Linux

Windows Subsystem for Linux has no installed distributions

Windows Subsystem for Linux is a great environment for working with Linux tools, applications, utilities, bash command prompt shell, etc., from a Windows environment, as long as you don’t run…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 4, 2023January 31, 2024
Docker Rename container from the command line and GUI
Containers

Docker Rename container from the command line and GUI

You may be running several Docker container instances in your lab environment and elsewhere. Docker container environments are becoming increasingly common for self-hosted services. Docker containers allow spinning up services…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 2, 2023January 10, 2024
IoT Notification System Push Notifications for Home Lab no SMTP required
home lab

IoT Notification System Push Notifications for Home Lab no SMTP required

There has been an explosion of IoT devices across consumer and enterprise environments leading to IoT notification system needs. IoT or Internet of things devices comprises sensors, connected industrial equipment,…

by Brandon LeeDecember 30, 2022November 27, 2023

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