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 LeeFebruary 12, 2018
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Selected host is an external witness for another vSAN Stretched cluster

As VHT readers have seen lately, I have been doing a lot of home lab work with VMware vSAN and thoroughly enjoying it. The advancements that have been made in vSAN 6.6 and patch levels have truly made vSAN a…
Processors

Brandon LeeFebruary 10, 2018
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Is Meltdown fixed in Intel Xeon D-2100 Processor?

The Intel Meltdown vulnerability and then the more general and broad vulnerability in Spectre have certainly been one of the most talked about hardware security vulnerabilities in modern history. The past several weeks since the vulnerability was disclosed have been…
vSAN

Brandon LeeFebruary 9, 2018
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Configure HCI Bench for VMware vSAN Performance Testing

In the previous post, we took a look at what the HCI Bench utility is and how it is installed for testing VMware vSAN performance. It is the preferred tool for VMware vSAN performance testing and is at least the…
vSAN

Brandon LeeFebruary 7, 2018
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What is HCI Bench VMware vSAN Performance Benchmark utility?

When it comes to benchmarking VMware vSAN, especially with vSphere 6.5 update 1 and higher, there is really one standard tool that is utilized to benchmark proof of concept environments. The HCI Bench utility is the “gold standard” if you…
vSAN

Brandon LeeFebruary 5, 2018
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Update VMware vSAN Witness Appliance

I noted a warning on my home lab VMware vSAN environment noting a missing critical patch with vSAN and deduplication environments. The patch was referencing the VMware KB article for all-flash clusters with deduplication enabled. This fit my environment in…
vSAN

Brandon LeeFebruary 1, 2018
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VMware vSAN Witness Host Not Found

In continuing to work with the 2-node VMware vSAN stretched cluster in the home lab, I ran into a little issue with the network showing as partitioned and the witness host showing it was in STANDALONE mode when I could…
vSAN

Brandon LeeJanuary 31, 2018
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Configure vSAN Error Disk with VSAN uuid failed to appear in CMMDS

In configuring a 2-node VMware vSAN cluster with a Witness host I ran into a strange issue that took a bit of head scratching and Googling to figure out. However, the solution was actually fairly simple. In attempting to configure…
vSAN

Brandon LeeJanuary 30, 2018
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Install and Configure VMware vSAN Witness Appliance in VMware Workstation

Update 1.30.2018 – Password issues with the vSAN Witness Appliance on legacy VMware Workstation versions One of the really great features starting in VMware vSAN 6.1 was the introduction of the the new 2-node and stretched cluster implementations of vSAN. …
NSX

Brandon LeeJanuary 29, 2018
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What is VMware NSX Guest Introspection and how is it configured?

VMware NSX provides powerful insight into network traffic and it allows administrators to handle traffic based on very powerful criteria, including the user that is logged into a resource. Now in VMware NSX 6.4, this insight has even been turned…
Storage

Brandon LeeJanuary 25, 2018
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Dell EMC UnityVSA storage appliance installation and configuration

One of the great resources for home lab environments is vendor released virtual storage appliance software solutions that emulate models of hardware that is typically found in the enterprise. Getting your hands on the actual hardware appliances can be difficult…