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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.
Create High Performance VMware VMs Checklist
VMware

Create High Performance VMware VMs Checklist

Virtualization technology allows us to make the most of the underlying physical hardware like was never possible without using a hypervisor.  Along with virtualizing hardware, it has introduced some very…

by Brandon LeeNovember 15, 2017January 11, 2021
Increase VMware Backup Performance
Backup Software

Increase VMware Backup Performance

When thinking about backups, we may not first think about backup performance, however, it is an important aspect of consideration with any data protection solution.  Backup performance can impact both…

by Brandon LeeNovember 14, 2017January 11, 2021
Installing Windows 10 Pro for Workstations
Windows 10

Installing Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

Recently, Microsoft released the Windows 10 Pro for Workstation version of Windows 10 to the fall lineup of Windows 10 editions.  This is a rather interesting move for Microsoft.  It…

by Brandon LeeNovember 13, 2017January 11, 2021
Accidentally delete VMware datastore files for a running VM?
VMware

Accidentally delete VMware datastore files for a running VM?

In case you are curious or may have run into this question before as you are browing around in the datastore browser – Can you accidentally delete VMware datastore files…

by Brandon LeeNovember 9, 2017January 11, 2021
VMware Backup Best Practices Checklist
Backup Software

VMware Backup Best Practices Checklist

When performing backups of VMware virtual machines, it is best to make sure that backup procedures follow best practices.  It is often helpful to have a checklist of sorts when…

by Brandon LeeNovember 8, 2017January 11, 2021
Use Snapshots in Production with Hyper-V Production Checkpoints
Hyper-V

Use Snapshots in Production with Hyper-V Production Checkpoints

For most virtualization admins who have spent any time in the trenches with administering virtual environments, snapshots are just a bad thing for most use cases, especially production workloads.  We…

by Brandon LeeNovember 7, 2017January 11, 2021
Picking the right VDI Solution Management Software
VDI

Picking the right VDI Solution Management Software

Successfully deploying and managing virtual desktop infrastructure or VDI can depend on picking the right VDI Solution management software.  Whether it relates to repurposing old PCs as VDI clients or…

by Brandon LeeNovember 6, 2017January 11, 2021
NAKIVO Backup and Replication 7.3 Beta Released
Backup Software

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…

by Brandon LeeNovember 3, 2017January 11, 2021
Install SQL Server 2017 on Ubuntu Server
SQL

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.…

by Brandon LeeNovember 2, 2017January 11, 2021
Manage Dell RAID in VMware ESXi 6.5 with PERCCLI
vSphere 6.5

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…

by Brandon LeeNovember 1, 2017February 13, 2024

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