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.

VMware

Brandon LeeNovember 22, 2019
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ESXi 6.7 Free Limitations and Features

One of the great options provide by VMware with the ESXi hypervisor today is the ability to download a free version of ESXi. There are many great things this allows you to do as a customer, an individual, a business,…
Cloud

Brandon LeeNovember 21, 2019
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Backup OneDrive for Business with Vembu v2.0

As more and more businesses migrate their data to the cloud and cloud Software-as-a-Service solutions, cloud backups are becoming increasingly important. In fact, as soon as your data lands in the cloud environment, you need to have a means to…
Security

Brandon LeeNovember 20, 2019
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Hypervisor Security Best Practices

When it comes to today’s modern infrastructures, most if not all are running some type of hypervisor powered virtual environment in some part of their organization. Virtualization has opened many possibilities for new features and capabilities when it comes to…
Azure

Brandon LeeNovember 19, 2019
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Azure Stack HCI Deployment with New Cluster Creation Extension

Microsoft is certainly serious about Windows Admin Center. With Windows Admin Center 1910, there have been many great new features introduced as part of the newest version of the WAC tool. Part of what Microsoft is trying to achieve with…
Hyper-V

Brandon LeeNovember 18, 2019
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Hyper-V Roadmap of Upcoming Features

If you are like me and just getting to digest some of the content from the recent Microsoft Ignite conference, there are several sessions that caught my attention. One of the sessions detailed what’s next with Hyper-V. In that session,…
Storage

Brandon LeeNovember 15, 2019
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StarWind VSAN for vSphere Virtual Appliances

You may have been considering VMware vSAN for your ROBO or Edge environment, however, your budget constraints simply do not allow purchasing a supported configuration for use with a VMware vSAN solution. The reality is that if you don’t have…
vRealize Suite

Brandon LeeNovember 13, 2019
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Upgrade to VMware vRealize Operations Manager vROPs 8.0

One of the tasks I have been wanting to get done in the home lab as a test bed for other projects is upgrade to VMware vRealize Operations Manager vROPs 8.0. The vROPs 8.0 release represents the latest and greatest…
Windows 10

Brandon LeeNovember 12, 2019
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Windows 10 1909 Download Released New Features

Well, apparently the wait is over for Windows 10 version 1909 aka 19H2 as it appears it has been released and starting to roll out for those looking to upgrade to the latest and greatest on the slow ring. In…
Windows Server 2019

Brandon LeeNovember 12, 2019
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Windows Server 2019 Storage Replica Failover Process

In the previous post, we took a look at Storage Replica in Windows Server 2019 Features and Configuration. The new features and configuration that are included with the Windows Server 2019 version of Storage Replica make it an even better…
Windows Server 2019

Brandon LeeNovember 11, 2019
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Storage Replica in Windows Server 2019 Features and Configuration

A capability that has been around for quite some time with Storage Area Network (SAN) devices is the ability to replicate the storage between one SAN device to another SAN device. SAN vendors have long had this capability. It provides…