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.

vSAN

Brandon LeeMarch 14, 2018
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VMware vSAN Learning Resources

With the wealth of resources available on the Internet, we all have a ton of learning resources at our fingertips when taking a technology and pulling it apart to see how it works and learn how to administer and operationalize…
VMware

Brandon LeeMarch 13, 2018
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Troubleshooting Slow VMware Virtual Machine Power On Time

There comes times when you have a single ESXi host that you wish you didn’t! There are certain times when something that is simply for development or staging that supposedly isn’t production, but management may view it as production and…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeMarch 12, 2018
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NAKIVO Backup and Replication v7.4 Beta Announced New Features

NAKIVO has announced the upcoming v7.4 Beta release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication that contains some really great new features! NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a powerful backup solution that allows you to deploy an appliance and be up and…
VMware

Brandon LeeMarch 9, 2018
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How VMware Backup Uses Snapshots

All who have been vSphere administrators for any amount of time will tell you, snapshots for the most part are evil! However, snapshots play a vital role in most vSphere infrastructures. When using them as designed and in a way that…
System Center

Brandon LeeMarch 8, 2018
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1801 New Features and Installation

For those not familiar with System Center Virtual Machine Manager it is part of the System Center Suite and is the tool developed by Microsoft cover management of both private clouds and public clouds in Azure. So, we can say…
Powershell

Brandon LeeMarch 6, 2018
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Installing PowerShell Core PowerCLI 10.0 in Windows 10

Microsoft has taken PowerShell to the next level in its GA release of PowerShell Core. What is PowerShell Core? It is the cross-platform version of PowerShell that is based on .NET Core which is open source as opposed to the…
vSAN

Brandon LeeMarch 5, 2018
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Configuring Veeam Virtual Appliance Mode for VMware vSAN

When backing up VMware vSAN, data protection solutions can still take advantage of VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection as they do backing up virtual machines from any type of VMware storage as it is storage agnostic. There are…
home lab

Brandon LeeMarch 2, 2018
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Asus XG-C100C 10G NIC Windows Server 2016 VLANs Jumbo Frames

Moving to 10 gig in the home lab environment, can potentially be an expensive undertaking. Ten gig hasn’t really come down as dramatically as all of us would have hoped, but things are getting better. If you are looking for…
VMware

Brandon LeeMarch 1, 2018
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Opvizor VMware Performance Analyzer 4.8.0 Released New Features

Monitoring performance and health in a VMware vSphere environment is a critical task for vSphere administrators. Especially in larger environments, it can be a real challenge to keep a handle on overall vSphere environment health. Then there are other concerns…
Web

Brandon LeeFebruary 28, 2018
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Easy Way to Replace or Install Apache Tomcat SSL Certificate

In working with a client recently, I was tasked with replacing an SSL certificate in Apache Tomcat, specifically for a JIRA install. If you have ever done this before, you know that it can be a royal PITA as there…