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.

vSphere 7

Brandon LeeJune 25, 2020
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What is VMware vSphere 7 Assignable Hardware?

VMware has introduced some serious innovation with VMware vSphere 7 across the board. One of the new features that I think is extremely powerful that isn’t getting the same attention as some of the other fetaures is the new VMware…
vSphere 7

Brandon LeeJune 24, 2020
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Apply New ESXi 7.0 updates with vSphere Lifecycle Manager vLCM

If you are like me you have been waiting for updates to be released for ESXi 7 so you could try out the vSphere Lifecycle Manager vLCM tool to apply those updates to your ESXi 7 vSphere cluster. The new…
Security

Brandon LeeJune 24, 2020
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Easy Windows Server Just In Time Administration JIT

One of the core pillars of good security with Windows Server is role-based access and least privilege access to resources in your environment. One of the newer buzzwords with security related to your Windows Server environment is called Just in…
vSphere 7

Brandon LeeJune 22, 2020
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What is vSphere Lifecycle Manager vLCM?

You may have noticed that one of the major new features with the VMware vSphere 7 release was the vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM). It is a great new tool that provides a new declarative model in keeping your hosts in…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeJune 19, 2020
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NAKIVO Backup and Replication v10 Beta Released New Features

NAKIVO is back at it again with a new beta release available for download. I am not sure how they have remained so productive during a global pandemic, but they have. They keep turning out new releases and great new…
Horizon View

Brandon LeeJune 19, 2020
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Install VMware Horizon 7 Lets Encrypt SSL Certificate

If you have ever used Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates, you know they are easy to use and free! The free part is the best part of the solution. Especially if you run a home lab, Let’s Encrypt provides a great…
vSphere 7

Brandon LeeJune 17, 2020
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What are VMware vSphere 7 Scalable Shares in DRS?

VMware has made a lot of new improvements with the Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) in VMware vSphere 7. One of these really powerful improvements that has been made is something VMware calls Scalable Shares. The new scalable shares in the…
NSX-T

Brandon LeeJune 16, 2020
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VMware NSX Identity Based Firewall (IDFW) Configuration in NSX-T 3.0

One of the powerful features of VMware NSX is the ability to have identity based firewalling features. This is an extremely cool feature that allows resources to be scoped not just based on traditional constructs such as VLANs and IP…
home lab

Brandon LeeJune 15, 2020
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VMware Cloud Foundation vCF 4.0 added to VMUG Advantage

I am a big proponent of the VMUG Advantage subscription as I have detailed in many previous posts. VMUG Advantage keeps getting better and better and since I have been a paying member, the price has remained unchanged. The newest…
home lab

Brandon LeeJune 11, 2020
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Supermicro VMware Home Lab

I have been making some changes and additions to the home lab recently and have added a new little machine to the mix that I will talk about. However, as most of you know if you have visited my Home…