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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 Performance Impact of Meltdown and Spectre Patches
VMware

VMware Performance Impact of Meltdown and Spectre Patches

Update 3.20.2018 – VMware has released vSphere 6.5 U1G which has a newly released microcode update Update 1.17.2018 – Firmware Updates and Initial Performance Data for Data Center Systems Update…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 10, 2018January 11, 2021
Vembu BDR Suite 3.9 New Features
Backup Software

Vembu BDR Suite 3.9 New Features

Vembu has recently announced the upcoming release of Vembu BDR Suite 3.9.  Vembu continues to innovate in their already very full-featured, all-inclusive backup product.  Vembu’s BDR Suite product covers data…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 9, 2018January 11, 2021
10 Gig Switch for Home Lab
home lab

10 Gig Switch for Home Lab

For quite a while now, I have been wanting to get the lab up to 10 gig connectivity especially for purposes of vMotion, vSAN, etc. Unfortunately, 10 gig ports are…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 8, 2018January 23, 2024
Perform Live Backups of VMware Workstation Virtual Machines
Workstation

Perform Live Backups of VMware Workstation Virtual Machines

There are many products out there that support live backups of enterprise hypervisors such as VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V and others. However, you are hard pressed to find a…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 5, 2018January 12, 2024
New Intel Design Flaw is VMware Affected?
Security

New Intel Design Flaw is VMware Affected?

Update 1.11.2018 – Script from William Lam to check VMs and Hosts/Clusters ***Update 1.9.2018 – VMware releases CPU microcode update as part of hypervisor-assisted guest remediation with VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2018-0004, new Hypervisor-Assisted…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 3, 2018January 11, 2021
Veeam Restore VM hardware version is not supported by destination host
Backup Software

Veeam Restore VM hardware version is not supported by destination host

After shipping a Veeam backup to another site location and attempting to restore, I ran into an issue the other day with a Veeam restore due to different vSphere versions…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 2, 2018January 11, 2021
Choosing the Best G Suite Backup Solution
Backup Software

Choosing the Best G Suite Backup Solution

Most organizations today are either thinking about migrating applications and resources to the public cloud or their migration is already underway.  Many extremely powerful and cost-effective options exist for moving…

by Brandon LeeDecember 29, 2017January 11, 2021
Veeam NFR Licenses for Home Labs
home lab

Veeam NFR Licenses for Home Labs

For most of us running home labs, having access to actual fully featured production software is a great way to increase skills and familiarize ourselves with software used in the…

by Brandon LeeDecember 28, 2017January 16, 2024
What is VMware Storage vMotion and How It Works
VMware

What is VMware Storage vMotion and How It Works

One of many hypnotic appeals to leveraging virtual infrastructure is the ability to move workloads around without any downtime. This is certainly true with the VMware vMotion operation that hooked…

by Brandon LeeDecember 27, 2017March 4, 2024
Change Boot Drive to NVMe Storage Controller in VMware Workstation 14
VMware

Change Boot Drive to NVMe Storage Controller in VMware Workstation 14

As with ESXi 6.5, VMware Workstation 14 has introduced support for the new NVMe storage controller. The new NVMe storage controller allows ones to take advantage of the ultra fast…

by Brandon LeeDecember 26, 2017January 11, 2021

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