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 6.5

Brandon LeeSeptember 8, 2017
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Reinstall VMware Tools in VMware VCSA Appliance

Recently, in working with an upgrade from VCSA 6 appliance to VCSA 6.5, I ran into a particular issue having to do with the VCSA 6 appliance not running VMware tools. In the environment, VMware tools had been inadvertently uninstalled…
Hyper-V

Brandon LeeSeptember 5, 2017
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Differences between Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces Direct

“Software Defined” is all the rage these days with vendors looking at ways to abstract core functionality and features away from the underlying hardware. Software defined storage is an especially hot topic. Microsoft has a couple of technologies out there…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeSeptember 4, 2017
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VMware VCSA 6.5 Photon OS configuration and commands

As we covered in what is Photon OS, it is a cloud operating system built from the ground up for cloud and containers. VMware is using Photon OS in most of the new appliance releases or updates. The new VCSA…
VDI

Brandon LeeAugust 31, 2017
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Automate configuration of Thin and Zero Client with Praim ThinMan

When thinking about automating the provisioning of thin clients as well as Windows PCs, a large part of the automation on the front end that we would want to be able to accomplish is automating configuration. We have already looked…
VMware

Brandon LeeAugust 30, 2017
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VMware VMWorld 2017 Announcements

With VMWorld 2017 underway and already a couple of days gone by, let’s take a look at VMware VMWorld 2017 Announcements that have already taken place as well. Additionally, I will keep this post updated with new announcements as they…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeAugust 29, 2017
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Managing Disabling Deleting VMware vCenter Server Plugins

In troubleshooting various problems with the vCenter Server appliance or perhaps in upgrading your VCSA 6.0 appliance to 6.5, you may run into issues with plugins installed in vCenter Server. Quite a few of the issues that many have run…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeAugust 28, 2017
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Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.2 GA released

We had announced not long ago on VHT that Nakivo had posted the Beta release of Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.2. It is great news that Nakiov has made it official – Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.2 GA released. Nakivo…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeAugust 25, 2017
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VMware VCSA 6.5 Upgrade no Tiny or Small Option

With many looking seriously at upgrading to vSphere 6.5 now with the GA release o Update 1, many will start the process of upgrading their vCenter servers. If you are running the VCSA appliance, with 6.5 VMware has made the…
vSphere Integrated Containers

Brandon LeeAugust 24, 2017
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Configuring VMware vSphere Integrated Containers

In the last post, we looked at getting the Docker Toolbox installed, vSphere Integrated Containers Networking Installed and deploying the OVA appliance for vSphere Integrated Containers. In this second post, we will look at pulling down the VIC windows package…
Computers

Brandon LeeAugust 23, 2017
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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Versions

Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor has definitely seen an uptick in adoption with more enterprise ready features with each version. Windows Server 2016 is the most capable and fully featured release to date and it certainly has matured from the early days…