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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.
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    Brandon LeeNovember 3, 2017
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    NAKIVO Backup and Replication 7.3 Beta Released

    NAKIVO is certainly blazing a trail of very quick release iterations and adding new features at a rapid pace. NAKIVO just announced the release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication 7.3 Beta. I really like NAKIVO’s beta programs as it gives…

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    Brandon LeeNovember 2, 2017
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    Install SQL Server 2017 on Ubuntu Server

    Microsoft has certainly been headed in a very cool direction in the past couple of years and have definitely embraced the Linux community and interoperability between Microsoft Windows and Linux. When we look at the strides that have been made…

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    Brandon LeeNovember 1, 2017
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    Manage Dell RAID in VMware ESXi 6.5 with PERCCLI

    We have covered the Avago/LSI StorCLI in past posts and how extremely useful it can be loaded on ESXi servers that have DAS volumes being presented with an Avago/LSI RAID controller. The advantage of loading/using the Avago/LSI StorCLI utility is…

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    Brandon LeeOctober 31, 2017
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    What is VMware vRealize Log Insight for vCenter Server

    Let’s face it, syslog collection is not as exciting as other things we would like to be doing as administrators, but often it is a necessary evil that we have to face when troubleshooting or trying to identify potential problems…

  • vSphere 6.5Using-storage-policy-with-new-virtual-machine-creation
    Brandon LeeOctober 27, 2017
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    Using VMware VM Storage Policies

    VMware Virtual Machine Storage Policies fall under the realm of Storage Policy Based Management that assists with virtual machine provisioning. When defined, Storage Based Policies define which type(s) of storage are presented for the virtual machine and how the virtual…

  • vSphere 6.5FTP-over-TLS-settings-and-certificate-configuration
    Brandon LeeOctober 25, 2017
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    Create Secure FTPS server for VMware VCSA 6.5 Backups

    We have covered in detail how to in general provision an FTP server using FileZilla for the purposes of targeting for our VCSA 6.5 backups.  However, to take this a step further, what if you want to secure the backup…

  • VMwareVerify-we-have-the-new-VM-customization-specification-in-Policies-and-profiles
    Brandon LeeOctober 24, 2017
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    Using VMware vSphere VM Customization Specification

    Deploying virtual machines is a basic part of VMware vSphere administration. Virtual machines are deployed, cloned, etc. Customizing the guest operating system can be a very labor intensive set of tasks from a provisioning standpoint. Thankfully, the VM Customization Specifications…

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    Brandon LeeOctober 23, 2017
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    New VMware vSphere 6.5 HTML5 Web Client Features with Fling

    VMware is showing great commitment to the development of the new HTML5 web client and are quickly releasing new features and functionality. How can you use the new HTML5 web client features and functionality before they make it into the…

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    Brandon LeeOctober 20, 2017
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    What is VMware Changed Block Tracking

    Most of today’s backup solutions that interact with VMware vSphere environments are able to use a technology called Changed Block Tracking (CBT) which allows taking incremental backups of virtual machines much more efficient which allows much smaller and quicker backups…

  • SQLSQL-Server-2017-Upgrade-process-is-successful
    Brandon LeeOctober 18, 2017
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    Upgrade SQL Server 2016 to 2017

    Recently, SQL Server 2017 was released as GA to the masses. This represents the latest and greatest SQL server technology available to consume. There are some really great new features that are contained in SQL Server 2017 to be aware…