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.

vExpert

Brandon LeeMarch 13, 2019
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VMware vExpert Program – Honored to be Selected

This year I wanted to create a blog post highlighting the VMware vExpert program and was on my list of goals for last year but didn’t get it done. I am very honored to be selected this year for the…
Windows Server 2019

Brandon LeeMarch 12, 2019
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Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct Backups with Vembu BDR Suite

Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct represents the latest and greatest software-defined storage solution from Microsoft that can be used with Hyper-V for true software-defined storage backed virtual machines. We have covered the benefits found in Windows Server 2019 Storage…
vSphere 6.7

Brandon LeeMarch 11, 2019
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VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 1 Unable to Update Release Catalog Error

In the home lab, I have noticed recently an ongoing warning with the vSAN release catalog up-to-date check. The VMware vSAN release catalog provides information to vSAN build recommendation engine that play an integral part in the health of the…
Apps

Brandon LeeMarch 8, 2019
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Monitoring VMware vSphere Infrastructure with Paessler PRTG

Monitoring an environment is one of the most complex tasks that administrators are tasked with doing in an environment. Today’s VMware vSphere administrators may have multiple hosts, vCenter Servers, switches, storae arrays, network connections, and many other things that need…
NSX-T

Brandon LeeMarch 7, 2019
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Deploy VMware NSX-T 2.4 Edge Transport Appliance VM

More VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4 fun! Working through deploying NSX-T 2.4 in the home lab and stepping through the various functional components of getting the lab up and running with NSX-T Data Center 2.4. After working through a few…
Service-Defined Firewall

Brandon LeeMarch 6, 2019
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What Is VMware Service-Defined Firewall Released?

Security is perhaps one of the most talked about and exciting areas of IT operations today as it is constantly evolving and making use of new technologies to stop the “bad guys” from compromising business-critical systems and data. With the…
NSX-T

Brandon LeeMarch 5, 2019
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NSX-T 2.4 Invalid Host Type or Host Not Supported Error

As the last few posts have indicated, I have been having lots of fun with NSX-T 2.4 in the lab. NSX-T 2.4 has tremendous new benefits and features that bring great new functionality to the table. In the last post,…
NSX-T

Brandon LeeMarch 4, 2019
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NSX-T 2.4 Compute Manager is Already Registered with Other NSX Manager Error

In working in the lab with the new release of NSX Data Center 2.4 for the past few days, I have ran into a few little issues that are worth posting and sharing with others. Some of these are ones…
NSX-T

Brandon LeeMarch 1, 2019
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Install VMware NSX-T 2.4 Manager Controller Combined Appliance

The VMware community has been abuzz over the past couple or three days at the time of this writing with the release of VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4. This is a huge release that has everyone talking about the new…
NSX-T

Brandon LeeFebruary 27, 2019
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VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4 Released New Features

There is much excitement in the world of software-defined networking. VMware’s NSX product has gained tremendous momentum over the past couple of years especially and there is a lot of work and development that has been going into extending the…