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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.
Upgrading VMware vSphere VCSA Appliance to 6.5 Update 1
vSphere 6.5

Upgrading VMware vSphere VCSA Appliance to 6.5 Update 1

With the recent exciting news of the release of VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1, there are many great reasons now to upgrade from vSphere 6.0. The first step that you…

by Brandon LeeJuly 29, 2017January 11, 2021
VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Released
vSphere 6.5

VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Released

It is definitely a big news day today – VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Released!  There is certainly a lot of good stuff contained in this release from vCenter Server,…

by Brandon LeeJuly 28, 2017July 28, 2017
Upgrading VMware NSX to 6.3.2 NSX Manager
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Upgrading VMware NSX to 6.3.2 NSX Manager

VMware NSX is an exciting network virtualization platform that is being developed at a fairly aggressive pace.  Each upgrade provides additional features and or bug fixes to an existing NSX…

by Brandon LeeJuly 27, 2017January 11, 2021
How Excluding Page File Affects VM backup
Backup Software

How Excluding Page File Affects VM backup

When thinking about making backups as efficient and timely as possible to decrease backup time windows, our backup solution needs to be as efficient as possible.  This would include excluding…

by Brandon LeeJuly 26, 2017January 11, 2021
Extend layer 2 DR network with VMware NSX
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Extend layer 2 DR network with VMware NSX

One of the especially tricky things that you have to deal with when thinking about a DR situation where you have a failover to another location is network connectivity. This…

by Brandon LeeJuly 25, 2017January 11, 2021
What is VMware NSX VXLAN
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What is VMware NSX VXLAN

In today’s world, resources are virtualized and abstracted from the underlying physical hardware.  We see this in the world of hypervisors including compute, storage, and networks.  VMware’s NSX allows for…

by Brandon LeeJuly 20, 2017January 11, 2021
Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.2 Beta Released
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Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.2 Beta Released

Nakivo keeps listening to what its customers need in their environments and they continue on a rapid development cycle both of which is driving Nakivo Backup & Replication to new…

by Brandon LeeJuly 19, 2017January 11, 2021
Install vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 Endpoint Agent
vSphere 6.5

Install vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 Endpoint Agent

Recently, VMware released vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 which has incorporated the beautiful HTML5 interface that we have partially functional with vCenter 6.5. Additonally starting in vRealize Operations Manager 6.1, we…

by Brandon LeeJuly 18, 2017February 5, 2024
Migrate from Powershell ISE to Visual Studio Code
Powershell

Migrate from Powershell ISE to Visual Studio Code

Most that code in PowerShell are most likely familiar with the PowerShell ISE. The Powershell ISE has been included since PowerShell 2.0 and definitely was/has been the go to tool…

by Brandon LeeJuly 17, 2017January 11, 2021
VMware DRS Fling graphical visibility tool
VMware

VMware DRS Fling graphical visibility tool

I had seen just a day or so ago via a tweet by @DuncanYB that a new fling was released giving us a graphical interface to see DRS data from…

by Brandon LeeJuly 14, 2017January 11, 2021

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