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Author: 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.
VMware vSphere ESXi Storage Performance Troubleshooting
VMware

VMware vSphere ESXi Storage Performance Troubleshooting

Recently, I was troubleshooting an issue with a production VMware vSphere cluster that was presenting with severe performance issues across the board. After triaging the symptoms of the performance issue…

by Brandon LeeAugust 14, 2018January 11, 2021
Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Containers
Windows Containers

Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Containers

Containers are certainly all the rage in the world of virtualization and are the next evolution in how businesses deploy and host applications and perform development. Containers offer several advantages…

by Brandon LeeAugust 13, 2018January 11, 2021
FreeNAS iSCSI Configuration for MPIO
Storage

FreeNAS iSCSI Configuration for MPIO

In the last post, Hyper-V Cluster MPIO iSCSI installation and configuration, we looked at configuring MPIO multi-pathing on a Hyper-V host connected to iSCSI storage. In a home lab environment,…

by Brandon LeeAugust 9, 2018January 11, 2021
Hyper-V Cluster MPIO iSCSI Installation and Configuration
Hyper-V

Hyper-V Cluster MPIO iSCSI Installation and Configuration

When configuring storage for Windows Server Hyper-V clusters with SAN storage, you always want to make sure you have multiple paths to your storage for redundancy and performance. With SAN…

by Brandon LeeAugust 8, 2018January 11, 2021
VMware NSX Best Practices with Runecast Analyzer v1.8
VMware

VMware NSX Best Practices with Runecast Analyzer v1.8

Gaining best practice expertise is often limited to reading through various documentation, piecing together information gained from support calls, reading books, watching various tech videos, and just the plain old…

by Brandon LeeAugust 6, 2018January 11, 2021
Installing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager SRM 8.1
Site Recovery Manager

Installing VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager SRM 8.1

One of the exiting recent announcements from VMUG was the addition of VMware’s Site Recovery Manager for vSphere being added to the catalog of downloable software for VMUG Advantage Subscribers.…

by Brandon LeeAugust 2, 2018January 11, 2021
NAKIVO Backup and Replication v7.5 Released with vSphere 6.7 and Cross-Platform Support
Backup Software

NAKIVO Backup and Replication v7.5 Released with vSphere 6.7 and Cross-Platform Support

Having an all inclusive data protection solution that has the enterprise capabilities needed to protect an organization with their various disaster recovery needs is crucial for meeting service level agreements…

by Brandon LeeAugust 1, 2018January 11, 2021
Hyper-V Instant VM Recovery with NAKIVO Backup and Replication
Backup Software

Hyper-V Instant VM Recovery with NAKIVO Backup and Replication

One of the key metrics that organizations look at when deciding upon SLAs during a diaster recovery event is the RTO, or the amount of time the organization is ok…

by Brandon LeeJuly 31, 2018January 11, 2021
Installing and Configuring Palo Alto PA220 Home Lab Firewall
home lab

Installing and Configuring Palo Alto PA220 Home Lab Firewall

I have been running a new Palo Alto PA-220 on a TAP interface mirroring my WAN traffic coming into the home lab and loving the visibility to applications that I…

by Brandon LeeJuly 30, 2018April 26, 2024
Spinbackup for Office 365 Beta Released Backup and Disaster Recovery Features
Cloud Software

Spinbackup for Office 365 Beta Released Backup and Disaster Recovery Features

Moving from on-prem to public cloud brings tremendous benefits to organizations in terms of being able to scale quickly, carry on development in an agile fashion, and have access to…

by Brandon LeeJuly 26, 2018November 22, 2023

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