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 LeeDecember 5, 2016
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How to Configure VMware VCSA 6.5 HA

One of the many exciting new features of the VCSA 6.5 appliance is the builtin ability for high availability or HA out of the box. The HA configuration process creates two additional appliances that are a “passive” node and a…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeDecember 2, 2016
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VMware vSphere 6.5 new features

VMware vSphere 6.5 has been released now and we are beginning to get our heads around the new functionality and features that are contained in this release. There is no question that the new VCSA 6.5 appliance contains some of…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeDecember 2, 2016
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Veeam SQL Server 2014 Standard Installation

Veeam uses SQL as the backend for the configuration database. By default, if you choose no other option, the installer will install SQL Server Express 2014 as the backend for your configuration database. One must think about this choice carefully…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeDecember 1, 2016
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VMware VCSA 6.5 Appliance Restore

In the last post, we covered the process to backup the new VCSA 6.5 appliance. Let’s now take a look at the VMware VCSA 6.5 appliance restore process from the backup file set. As shown in the previous post, the…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeNovember 30, 2016
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New VMware VCSA 6.5 Appliance Backup

With the new VCSA 6.5 appliance, there is new functionality to backup the VCSA appliance builtin to the VAMI interface. You will notice there is a new “Backup” button over in the upper right hand corner. Let’s take a look…
Windows Server 2016

Brandon LeeNovember 29, 2016
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Upgrade Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller to Windows Server 2016

For those who may be considering upgrading Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller to Windows Server 2016, there are a few things to consider first. I have never liked the idea of upgrading OS’es. It just seems like taking contaminated…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeNovember 23, 2016
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Veeam Object reference not set to an instance of an object

I wanted to share an issue recently I ran into with Veeam 9.5 running a restore job on a production VM into a test/development environment. I received the error in Veeam Object reference not set to an instance of an…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeNovember 22, 2016
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Vembu BDR Suite – The all-in-one backup solution at affordable cost for all

There are many options when it comes to backing up virtual infrastructure both in the VMware and Hyper-V space as well as protection cloud resources. Many may piece together solutions with multiple products to cover the bases across hypervisors, physical…
VMware

Brandon LeeNovember 21, 2016
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Snapshot The features supported by the processors in this machine are different

Recently, I ran into a catch 22 of sorts with a VM that was running a snapshot in a development environment. The VM had a snapshot created for a quick “rinse and repeat” set of operations where we needed the…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeNovember 17, 2016
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Upgrade Veeam Backup and Replication 9.0 to 9.5

Well, there have been so many awesome releases lately with VMware releasing vSphere 6.5 and now Veeam releasing Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 and B&R 9.5 as well. Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 contains some really exciting enhancements to the 9.X…