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.

Software Defined Storage

Brandon LeeSeptember 14, 2020
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StarWind VSAN Performance Configuration for Maximum Speed Webinar

Designing infrastructure according to best practices can sometime be difficult to implement correctly. No matter what solution is provisioned, there are recommended best practices and settings that are generally recommended which allows the solution to perform and operate correctly and…
home lab

Brandon LeeSeptember 12, 2020
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Nested ESXi Lab Build Networking and Hardware

Many who are learning VMware vSphere and those who may already work with VMware vSphere products each and every day benefit from having a lab environment. I have always been a proponent of lab environments. Even with many touting moving…
vRealize Suite

Brandon LeeSeptember 10, 2020
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vRealize Operations Manager Dashboards Adding and Customizing

If you have access to vRealize Operations Suite, it is an awesome product to have running in your vSphere environment. With vRealize Operations Manager, you have a tremendously powerful tool to keep an eye on your vSphere environment. With vRealize…
Digital Workspace

Brandon LeeSeptember 9, 2020
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Cameyo’s Digital Workspace Platform Now Available on Microsoft Azure

Every once in a while, there is a great product that comes along that is able to change how businesses solve very challenging problems in a truly unique way. This certainly is Velocloud from a network perspective, VMware from a…
vSAN

Brandon LeeSeptember 8, 2020
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VMware LACP Load Balancing Mode in vSAN

When it comes to VMware vSAN and any other hyperconverged infrastructure, the network is vitally important. I have been doing some reworking of the home lab vSAN environment with the upgrade of my 10 gig network switch. I have been…
vSAN

Brandon LeeSeptember 4, 2020
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VMware vSAN Stretched Cluster Failover

If you are like me, what is the purpose of spinning up a stretched cluster in the home lab without being able to intentionally break things (queue the Tim Allen grunt). I really like doing this as it helps to…
vSAN

Brandon LeeSeptember 2, 2020
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Configure VMware vSAN 7 Stretched Cluster

One of the coolest features in my opinion with VMware vSAN is the vSAN stretched cluster. The stretched cluster allows you to have an environment that is extremely resilient to failure and where you have all of your data on…
Hardware

Brandon LeeSeptember 1, 2020
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 3080 3090 Released Specs Availability

Today was the event that certainly has been anticipated by those who have been following the recent news, leaks, and other information online. NVIDIA has been set to release a new flagship GPU for the RTX line. I covered in…
Hardware

Brandon LeeAugust 31, 2020
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When will Alienware PCs get the New Nvidia RTX 3080 and 3090?

With the release of Flight Simulator 2020, I have the itch to have a gaming computer once again with the graphics horsepower needed to play FS2020. The new FS2020 release is stressing even the current top graphics hardware available on…
vSAN

Brandon LeeAugust 31, 2020
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VMware vSAN Home Lab 10 gig Network Switch Upgrade

Like any virtualized architecture, the network is an extremely integral part of VMware vSAN. With the software-defined architecture of vSAN, all storage activities take place across the network for the most part. If you are running an all-flash vSAN environment,…