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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.
Windows Server 2021 Preview Build Features
Windows Server 2021

Windows Server 2021 Preview Build Features

***Update*** The next version of Windows Server is Windows Server 2022. See below. It seems like Windows Server 2019 is still a new operating system. However, it is hard to…

by Brandon LeeNovember 12, 2020January 29, 2024
Runecast 4.6 Released with ISO/IEC 27001 Compliance Checks
Software

Runecast 4.6 Released with ISO/IEC 27001 Compliance Checks

Runecast is at it again – introducing great new features that continue to help customers to meet compliance and best practices recommendations in an ever-growing list of environments. The value…

by Brandon LeeNovember 11, 2020January 11, 2021
Windows Server 2016 Install Remote Desktop Services
Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016 Install Remote Desktop Services

This year has been a year like none other with organizations scrambling to bolster their remote work infrastructure. It has meant that businesses have had to provision the infrastructure needed…

by Brandon LeeNovember 10, 2020January 11, 2021
VMware vSphere with Tanzu Nested Lab Networking Configuration
Tanzu

VMware vSphere with Tanzu Nested Lab Networking Configuration

VMware vSphere with Tanzu has been a hot topic for me in my lab the past couple of weeks. It has been a fun learning experience getting things up and…

by Brandon LeeNovember 9, 2020March 26, 2024
Slipstream the Latest VMware ESXi Patches into the Installation ISO
VMware

Slipstream the Latest VMware ESXi Patches into the Installation ISO

Many Windows administrators remember the term from back in the day of “slipstreaming.” This was where you would take the latest patches that were released and you took these patches…

by Brandon LeeNovember 6, 2020February 13, 2024
How to Create a vSphere with Tanzu Namespace
Tanzu

How to Create a vSphere with Tanzu Namespace

No doubt, there are many like me that are having fun playing around with vSphere with Tanzu. I have been utilizing William Lam’s vSphere with Tanzu automation script to quickly…

by Brandon LeeNovember 5, 2020January 11, 2021
Install Palo Alto VM Series in VMware vSphere
Security

Install Palo Alto VM Series in VMware vSphere

Recently, in the home lab, I have been doing a lot of lab networking configurations and testing various scenarios. Recently, thanks to the great guys at Palo Alto, I was…

by Brandon LeeNovember 4, 2020January 30, 2024
StarWind New OEM Solutions for Vendors and Integrators
Software Defined Storage

StarWind New OEM Solutions for Vendors and Integrators

StarWind provides a wealth of products and solutions that offer tremendous value to SMB and enterprise organizations. From StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), StarWind Virtual Tape Library, and StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator,…

by Brandon LeeNovember 3, 2020January 11, 2021
Data Backup in Virtualized Environments
Backup Software

Data Backup in Virtualized Environments

Organizations today are making use of many different types of infrastructure across the landscape of their business.  Over the past decade, infrastructure backing business-critical workloads have shifted to virtualized environments…

by Brandon LeeNovember 3, 2020January 11, 2021
PRTG VMware Host Hardware Status Monitor with SNMP
VMware Monitoring

PRTG VMware Host Hardware Status Monitor with SNMP

Monitoring is often a not so glorious or desirable thing to do. One of those “have to haves” that, depending on the solution, can be cumbersome to configure and setup…

by Brandon LeeNovember 2, 2020December 22, 2023

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