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.

vSphere 6.7

Brandon LeeApril 23, 2018
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Upgrading to VMware vCenter Server VCSA 6.7

We have covered looking at new aspects of vSAN 6.7 as well as vSphere 6.7 and the process of installing vCenter Server as well as Installing and Upgrading ESXi server. Let’s now take a look at the process to upgrade…
vSphere 6.7

Brandon LeeApril 19, 2018
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VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7 New Features Installing and Upgrading

Yesterday held very exciting news for the VMware community with vSphere 6.7 being released as GA. VMware has certainly kept everyone “wanting more” with every release of products and they have certainly been on a roll with captivating their customer…
vSphere 6.7

Brandon LeeApril 18, 2018
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VMware VCSA 6.7 New Features Installation and Configuration

The new VMware vSphere vCenter Server 6.7 dropped yesterday as GA and installation files are readily available for download now. We have already talked a bit about vSAN 6.7. This is certainly an exciting release for VMware and customers! The…
vSAN

Brandon LeeApril 17, 2018
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VMware vSAN 6.7 Released with New Features

Well exciting news today. VMware vSAN 6.7 has been released and it is an exciting release for sure! It seems like any news surrounding vSAN is exciting however. VMware vSAN has had wild adoption in the enterprise and is continuing…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeApril 13, 2018
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Create VMware Data Protection Group Microsoft Azure Backup Server

We have already taken a look at provisioning Microsoft Azure Backup Server as well as connecting MABS to VMware vCenter Server to begin protecting our VMware virtual machines. However, we have another step we need to accomplish before we can…
Automation

Brandon LeeApril 11, 2018
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Bootstrap Windows Server Configuration with Ansible Playbooks

In our previous Ansible post covering basic Windows Server automation with Ansible, we looked at how to get an ansible server up and running as well as how to get the Ansible server connected to a Windows Server that we…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeApril 9, 2018
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Connect VMware vCenter to Microsoft Azure Backup Server

In the last post, we took a look at Installing and Configuring Microsoft Azure Backup Server. The latest version of the product allows backing up VMware virtual machines and also replicating these backups to the Azure Cloud. Pretty cool indeed!…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeApril 6, 2018
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Installing and Configuring Microsoft Azure Backup Server

For those that may not be aware, Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) is an Azure intergrated data protection solution that also backs up VMware environments. Yes, VMware. Starting with Microsoft Azure Backup Server Update 1, Microsoft has included the ability…
Automation

Brandon LeeApril 5, 2018
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Basic Windows Server Automation with Ansible

We have already looked at installing Ansible Tower for GUI administration of Ansible which we will go back to. I want to back up a little bit and cover working with Ansible from the command line, showing how easy it…
Windows Server 2019

Brandon LeeApril 4, 2018
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Windows Server 2019 Installing Roles and Features with Project Honolulu PowerShell

Update 4.13.2018 – Project Honolulu released officially as Windows Admin Center Recently, we looked at Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2019 and Project Honolulu. Project Honolulu is a new web based management platform that allows aggregating Windows Server administration into…