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 2019

Brandon LeeMay 6, 2019
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Create Unattend Answer File for Windows Server 2019 Automated Packer Installation

Recently, I have been working a lot with Packer installations in the home lab to configure automated builds of Server operating systems to have always “up-to-date” copies of Windows Server templates so that you shortcut all the time needed to…
Windows Server 2019

Brandon LeeMay 2, 2019
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Install and Configure Windows Server 2019 Azure Network Adapter

There are many new and exciting features found in Windows Server 2019 and many of these have to do with much more seamless and tighter cloud integration. Microsoft has done a great job of introducing new and improved functionality and…
VMware

Brandon LeeMay 1, 2019
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Share VMDK Data Between VMs Multi-Writer Disk Without Cluster File System

Recently, in working with a client with many different lab environments, there arose the need to copy SQL backups from one lab and restore into a number of other labs. The DB in question was a DB that was around…
Azure VMware Solutions

Brandon LeeApril 30, 2019
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Run VMware on Azure Bare Metal with Azure VMware Solutions

VMware has certainly made “cloud” a primary objective in their portfolio of offerings. Cloud is the future and where most organizations are looking to to extend their infrastructure for their needs of tomorrow. As many are already becoming familiar and…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeApril 29, 2019
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Backup and Restore Nutanix VMs with NAKIVO

NAKIVO has been feverishly releasing new updates to their NAKIVO Backup & Replication product and increasing its functionality and adding impressive new features. NAKIVO has a really great way to introduce new upcoming functionality and releases to their customers via…
Apps

Brandon LeeApril 26, 2019
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PRTG Desktop Released Best Network Monitoring Tools for Windows

Monitoring is one of those things that no one enjoys doing and usually it gets neglected. However, this is general because the right tools are not used. When something is difficult and unfruitful, we tend to shy away from doing…
Nutanix

Brandon LeeApril 25, 2019
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Guest VM Running in Nested Nutanix CE on VMware vSphere Won’t Boot

I have been playing around quite a bit lately in the home lab with a nested installation of Nutanix Community Edition (CE) as it is a great way to get your feet wet with the Nutanix hypervisor for free and…
vRealize Suite

Brandon LeeApril 23, 2019
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Upgrade to VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.5

VMware has tremendously overhauled the VMware vRealize suite of products over the past few releases. VMware vRealize Operations has come a long way in its journey to version 7.5 with many added features and benefits and a new focus on…
VDI

Brandon LeeApril 22, 2019
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Low Cost Thin Client PCs with ThinOX4PC version 11

Often one of the deterrents for organizations to undertake a VDI initiative is the costs involved. While VDI can provide tremendous benefits for many organizations looking to simplify, scale, and operationalize end user clients, the costs of retooling can be…
vSphere 6.7

Brandon LeeApril 18, 2019
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New VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2 Client Developer Center API Explorer and Code Capture

In today’s fast-paced environments, automation is king of the hill. In fact in most operations environments in many businesses, it is simply not possible to do things the way they used to be done. Many if not most of today’s…