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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.
Network Best Practices for vSphere HA High Availability Clusters
VMware

Network Best Practices for vSphere HA High Availability Clusters

One of the basic features that is built into the VMware vSphere solution when virtualizing your workloads on top of a vSphere cluster is high-availability. In fact, VMware HA is…

by Brandon LeeOctober 1, 2019January 11, 2021
VMware ESXi Commandline Get CPU and Memory Information
VMware

VMware ESXi Commandline Get CPU and Memory Information

There are times with your virtual infrastructure running on top of VMware vSphere that you need to gather information about the physical servers you are running on. Have you ever…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 30, 2019January 11, 2021
How to Manage the NSX-T N-VDS Virtual Switch
NSX-T

How to Manage the NSX-T N-VDS Virtual Switch

NSX-T has a type of virtual switch that is different than the other types of virtual switches that have been used in vSphere previously. The NSX-T Virtual Distributed Switch (N-VDS)…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 27, 2019January 11, 2021
Recover from Ransomware with Effective Backups
Backup Software

Recover from Ransomware with Effective Backups

As IT professionals today, there is no doubt in our minds that data is more important that it has ever been before.  Data is the very heart of the businesses…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 25, 2019November 22, 2023
Hybrid Backup Solutions to Protect Your Business
Backup Software

Hybrid Backup Solutions to Protect Your Business

There is no question that backups are the lifeblood of protecting your data. There are an ever-growing number of threats to business-critical data that exist in the enterprise data center.…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 24, 2019January 11, 2021
VMware Tools 11.0 Released New Features
VMware Tools

VMware Tools 11.0 Released New Features

In case you haven’t heard as of yet, there is a new VMware Tools on the block, VMware Tools 11.0. It is sporting really great new features to make note…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 23, 2019January 11, 2021
What is VMware HCX?
HCX

What is VMware HCX?

Chances are if you have had your ear to the ground lately with all of the releases and solutions that have been pumping out of VMware, especially with sessions at…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 19, 2019January 11, 2021
Amazon AWS Data Loss Shows Cloud Backups Are Crucial
Backup Software

Amazon AWS Data Loss Shows Cloud Backups Are Crucial

We have certain grown accustomed to today’s “cloud age” where services we subscribe to are in the cloud, data is stored in the cloud, and last but not least, we…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 18, 2019January 11, 2021
vCenter Update Failed Fix and Reset Banner Error
vSphere 6.7

vCenter Update Failed Fix and Reset Banner Error

I wanted to post a quick post regarding an error received in the lab environment when updating a vCenter Server appliance that I hadn’t logged into in quite a while.…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 17, 2019January 11, 2021
Simulate SAN Storage with FreeNAS 11.2
Storage

Simulate SAN Storage with FreeNAS 11.2

If you are like me, you are constantly labbing various storage solutions and connectivity from virtual hosts and the like in the home lab. Most likely, you don’t have a…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 16, 2019January 11, 2021

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