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 LeeAugust 22, 2017
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Update VMware ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 with PowerCLI

There are a number of different ways to get your VMware ESXi 6.0 hosts upgraded to ESXi 6.5. We have covered some of them in previous articles. However, let’s take a quick look at utilizing PowerCLI for this task with…
Cloud Software

Brandon LeeAugust 21, 2017
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Spinbackup G Suite Backup and Security Configuration

Cloud security is on everyone’s minds these days. As we covered in the first part of our two-part post, Spinbackup is a phenomenal product that protects organizations running Google G Suite in their environment. Just to review, it is a…
Powershell

Brandon LeeAugust 18, 2017
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Use Git with Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a great PowerShell development platform and since moving off of PowerShell ISE, I can say that I haven’t really looked back since making the move. Visual Studio Code provides tight integration with Git so it is…
vSphere Integrated Containers

Brandon LeeAugust 16, 2017
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Installing VMware vSphere Integrated Containers Part 1

For those used to working with VMware vSphere virtual machines in the enterprise datacenter, VMware makes the same tooling and interface experience available working with Docker containers in vSphere Integrated Containers or VIC. The really cool thing is that vSphere…
VMware

Brandon LeeAugust 15, 2017
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Runecast Analyzer VMware Best Practices new REST API Integration

As we have covered before, Runcast Analyzer for VMware vSphere is a tremendously powerful product to ensure the health and to automate best practices discovery for your environment. Runecast continues to show they are forward thinking with the inclusion of…
Cloud Software

Brandon LeeAugust 14, 2017
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Spinbackup G Suite Security and Backup Installation

In today’s world, most organizations are utilizing the public cloud for at least some aspect of their infrastructure. Cloud resources allow organizations to be more agile and move quickly without the limits of procuring and provisioning hardware, network, and other…
VMware

Brandon LeeAugust 11, 2017
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What is VMware Photon OS?

Today most vendors are putting a lot of emphasis on “cloud native” applications. Cloud native applications are geared toward containers and containerized applications. This makes possible running microservices inside containers with the ability to function in cloud computing environments and…
Azure

Brandon LeeAugust 10, 2017
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Configure Meraki to Azure Site to Site VPN

Lately, I have been playing around a lot with Azure as there is a lot of momentum, development, and enthusiasm around the platform. Since I run the Meraki MX security device at home, I wanted to play around with the…
VDI

Brandon LeeAugust 4, 2017
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Powerful remote PC and thin client management with Praim ThinMan

In our previous post looking at how to automate and repurpose old PCs into Thin Client VDI devices, we looked at both Praim ThinOX4PC and ThinMan. In that post, we took a high-level view of Praim ThinMan and its capabilities. …
home lab

Brandon LeeAugust 3, 2017
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VMUG Advantage adds vRealize Automation 7.3 Enterprise

VMUG continues to offer a mind shattering package of value for VMUG Advantage members. The EvalExperience that comes with the Advantage membership is the hands down best cost effective way to play around with the suite of VMware products in…