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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.
StarWind Two Node VMware Hyperconverged VSAN
Computers

StarWind Two Node VMware Hyperconverged VSAN

If you have not heard about StartWind Virtual SAN, it is a highly scalable and powerful virtual SAN solution that allows for a two node hyperconverged configuration for multiple Hypervisor…

by Brandon LeeJuly 13, 2017January 11, 2021
PowerShell Compare VM inventory with Veeam Backup Jobs
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PowerShell Compare VM inventory with Veeam Backup Jobs

If you run Veeam Backup & Replication in your environment and you have many VMs in your VMware vSphere inventory and you want to audit to make sure you have…

by Brandon LeeJuly 12, 2017January 11, 2021
Deploy Netwrix Auditor Virtual Appliance
Computers

Deploy Netwrix Auditor Virtual Appliance

Netwrix Auditor is a great tool for automating the auditing of your Infrastructure.  It is highly capable and audits just about any type of environment that you can think of…

by Brandon LeeJuly 10, 2017March 12, 2024
VMware LSI SAS vs PVSCSI vs NVMe Controller Performance
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VMware LSI SAS vs PVSCSI vs NVMe Controller Performance

With all of the different variations of virtual controllers now available in VMware, I wanted to perform a simple test of disk performance benchmarks when using all three controllers on…

by Brandon LeeJuly 7, 2017January 11, 2021
Praim Agile a Secure Mobile Interface for VDI and workstations
VDI

Praim Agile a Secure Mobile Interface for VDI and workstations

Managing thin clients as well as Windows workstations can be a challenge in itself.  However, customizing the user interface so that it is streamlined and optimized for access to enterprise…

by Brandon LeeJuly 6, 2017November 22, 2023
Add iSCSI Shared Storage in Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016

Add iSCSI Shared Storage in Windows Server 2016

If you are configuring a Windows Server 2016 Failover cluster or you are building a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V cluster, you will need shared storage so that either the file…

by Brandon LeeJuly 5, 2017January 11, 2021
Automate Veeam Restores Using PowerShell
Powershell

Automate Veeam Restores Using PowerShell

One of the powerful things that Veeam offers is the ability to use PowerShell to both backup and restore virtual machines.  This makes for great ways to automate tasks either…

by Brandon LeeJuly 3, 2017January 11, 2021
Installing Avago LSI StorCLI VMware ESXi
VMware

Installing Avago LSI StorCLI VMware ESXi

In our previous post on how to update Avago SMIS provider in VMware ESXi, we discussed how to upgrade your Avago/LSI SMIS provider that allows you to interact with your…

by Brandon LeeJune 28, 2017February 13, 2024
What is VMware vRNI and How to Install
NSX

What is VMware vRNI and How to Install

With the recent announcement from VMUG that the NSX offering includes VMware vRNI, you may be asking yourself if you are a VMUG subscriber – What is VMware vRNI?  VMware…

by Brandon LeeJune 27, 2017January 11, 2021
Update Avago LSI SMIS Provider VMware ESXi
VMware

Update Avago LSI SMIS Provider VMware ESXi

If you are running an Avago/LSI RAID controller card in a VMware host, Avago has an SMIS provider that can be installed on the host that allows you to connect…

by Brandon LeeJune 26, 2017March 18, 2024

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