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 LeeJuly 17, 2019
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Automate and Manage Capacity and I/O Across VMware Datastores with Storage DRS

If you manage multiple single LUNs in production or perhaps in a lab environment, you may find it difficult to continually balance out storage either based on capacity of the LUN or the I/O performance you are looking to balance…
Horizon View

Brandon LeeJuly 16, 2019
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Installing VMware Horizon 7.9 Connection Server Step-by-Step

Recently, VMware released Horizon 7.9 which is their latest virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) product delivering exciting new features for desktop virtualization. Check out the details of the new VMware Horizon 7.9 release here. In this post, we will take a…
Windows 10

Brandon LeeJuly 15, 2019
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Windows 10 Photos Package Could Not Be Opened Fix

We all run into pesky little operating system and application issues from time to time. Due to creating a lot of blog content, I deal with a lot of photos on a daily basis. I have photo capturing and editing…
Security

Brandon LeeJuly 12, 2019
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5 Ways to Improve Virtualization Security

Security is a top priority among businesses today and no doubt as a virtualization administrator you are tasked with ensuring securing in your environment is what it needs to be. Whether you manage VMware or Hyper-V environments, security is a…
Windows 10

Brandon LeeJuly 10, 2019
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Download Windows 10 1809 1903 RSAT Install Using New Windows FoD

For the past several versions of Windows 10, I have been used to having to pull the latest Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) down from Microsoft from the Microsoft downloads page. Even if you have RSAT installed, when you upgrade…
VMware

Brandon LeeJuly 9, 2019
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Manually Patch VMware vCenter Server VCSA with ISO

Patching is one of the things that we as administrators hate to do, but it is a necessary thing to keep up with the latest and greatest features and functionality, not to mention, security. The VMware vSphere environment is no…
Computers

Brandon LeeJuly 8, 2019
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VMware Horizon 7.9 Released with New Features

Just a few days ago now, VMware released VMware Horizon version 7.9 to the masses with many new improvements to their premier Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution. There are enhancements all the way across the landscape of functionality including Connection…
Powershell

Brandon LeeJuly 5, 2019
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How To Query a MySQL Database with PowerShell

Recently, I had a project where I needed to query a MySQL database with PowerShell to perform an automated task to pull data and then trigger from the returned rows if any from MySQL. I had found various scripts that…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeJuly 3, 2019
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What’s New With VMware vSphere 6.5 update 3 Features

Well, VMware continues to improve the vSphere 6.5 release of code for customers who haven’t migrated up to vSphere 6.7 as of yet. The great thing with vSphere 6.5, VMware continues to bring many of the features found in vSphere…
Security

Brandon LeeJuly 2, 2019
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Five Ways to Improve Network Security

Network security is at the heart of designing a good security posture in an enterprise data center. Often, when threat actors are able to move easily in a lateral way across a network, it is due to poorly designed network…