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.

Backup Software

Brandon LeeApril 1, 2019
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Protect Hyper-V Cluster VMs with NAKIVO Backups

Besides running production workloads inside of Hyper-V clusters, an important consideration for businesses utilizing Hyper-V is being able to properly protect Hyper-V workloads running inside of Hyper-V environments. For a backup solution to properly protect Hyper-V, it needs to be…
Azure

Brandon LeeMarch 29, 2019
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Installing and Connecting PowerShell Az Module with Microsoft Azure

Interacting with Microsoft Azure is certainly achievable with the Azure portal, however, perhaps one of the huge advantages and features of cloud environment such as Microsoft Azure is the ability to interact programmatically with all aspects of the cloud. Microsoft’s…
Apps

Brandon LeeMarch 28, 2019
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Devolutions Wayk Now Free Remote Access Tool

I am constantly looking at new tools that can be used either in the home lab, clients, or enterprise environments. I have been using a really great tool for the past couple of years now from a company called Devolutions…
Software

Brandon LeeMarch 27, 2019
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Export and Import a Single Bookmarks Folder from Chrome

This is a post that I hope others benefit from that comes from one of those pesky issues that we all run into from time to time. It is an issue that when you face it, you think – “why…
Horizon View

Brandon LeeMarch 26, 2019
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Upgrade VMware Horizon Agent to 7.8

Continuing to work through the home lab Horizon environment to get things up to Horizon 7.8 so wanted to create a few more quick tidbits of the upgrade process. Today I worked on upgrading my master Windows 10 VM for…
vSphere 6.7

Brandon LeeMarch 25, 2019
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Select Multiple Patch Baselines in vSphere 6.7 Update 1 HTML 5 vSphere Client

All of us vSphere admins love the new vSphere Client HTML 5 interface. In fact this is probably the most anticipated reason to upgrade an environment to vSphere 6.7 Update 1, since you get the fully-featured client that now has…
Horizon View

Brandon LeeMarch 22, 2019
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Upgrading to Horizon 7.8 Connection Server

Just a few days ago VMware released Horizon 7.8 with a ton of great new benefits including more features being added to the Horizon Console which is he new modern HTML5 interface for administering Horizon View. VMware certainly has as…
home lab

Brandon LeeMarch 21, 2019
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New Server Network Rack for Home Virtualization Lab Environment

One of the side projects that I have been working on in the past few days has been migrating away from my old style “bread rack” for the home lab over to a proper server/network rack that consolidates everything, is…
VMware PowerCLI

Brandon LeeMarch 19, 2019
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PowerCLI Mass Clone and Rename VMware VMs from One vCenter Folder to Another

Automation is king of IT operations today. It is extremely cool and rather fun to be able to hack out a few lines of PowerShell or PowerCLI code in the vSphere realm and perform massive operations that would possibly take…
Horizon View

Brandon LeeMarch 18, 2019
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VMware Horizon 7.8 Released with New Features

VMware has been on an extremely agressive release cycle with their End User Computing technology, better known as VMware Horizon over the course of the past several months. Just a few days ago VMware Horizon 7.8 was released with many…