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 LeeNovember 16, 2016
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Upgrade VMware vCenter VCSA appliance 6.0 to 6.5

The core of all vSphere functionality is vCenter server. VMware has definitely embraced and chosen the VCSA appliance as the way forward in version 6.5. VCSA 6.5 has all of the functionality of the Windows vCenter server including Update manager…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeNovember 16, 2016
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Upgrading VMware ESXi 6.0 to 6.5

With the release of vSphere 6.5, most will be thinking about upgrading hosts and vSphere infrastructure to 6.5. Let’s take a look at the process of upgrading VMware ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 on a ESXi 6.0 U2 host. As mentioned…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeNovember 16, 2016
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VMware ESXi 6.5 Install step by step

vSphere 6.5 has been released! With the release yesterday of VMware vSphere 6.5, this is a quick post showing screenshots of the VMware ESXi 6.5 Install step by step and what to expect with the install. For the most part there…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeNovember 15, 2016
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Configure Veeam Backup and Replication for optimal performance

When setting up Veeam Backup and Replication there are a few settings that you want to tweak. The default settings out of the box aren’t really setup optimally for your Proxy as well as the Backup repository. These are simple…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeNovember 9, 2016
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Create Encrypted Backup Repository with Nakivo Backup and Replication 6.2

With data security being at the forefront of everyone’s mind in the digital world we live in, we need to think about security in every aspect. One area that may not readily come to mind is backup data. After all…
Networking

Brandon LeeNovember 8, 2016
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Use VIRL Images in GNS3

In the first post of the GNS3 VM series, we looked at how to setup GNS3 VM VMware ESXi. One of the awesome features of the new GNS3 VMs is that you can actually use your VIRL images in GNS3…
Networking

Brandon LeeNovember 8, 2016
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Setup GNS3 VM VMware ESXi

GNS3 has definitely matured as a product and offers tremendous functionality especially if you look at the cross vendor platform support that it offers. I definitely prefer the interface of GNS3 over other products such as VIRL. VIRL is maturing…
VMware

Brandon LeeNovember 4, 2016
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Find storage driver version update VMware ESXi

There may be times when you need to update a storage driver in VMware ESXi if you are troubleshooting or ruling out hardware issues. Especially if you install the general ESXi install from VMware without any vendor customizations, it may…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeNovember 3, 2016
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VMware vSphere 6.5 Configure Encrypted VMs

One of the new exciting features that was introduced with vSphere 6.5 is the encrypted VMs feature. Security these days is on everyone’s mind and encryption provides a solution to many security concerns. What happens if someone gets a copy…
Windows 10

Brandon LeeNovember 1, 2016
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Windows 10 launching browser automatically after login

I ran into a peculiar issue the other day in a lab environment where workstations that others were remoting into, were not able to remote in any longer. Well, thinking there was a network issue connecting to the workstations, I…