Skip to content
  • YouTube
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • GitHub
  • Facebook
  • Discord
  • Pinterest
Vht logo redesign 2025 2

Virtualization Howto

Virtualization, Cloud, DevOps, Reviews

  • Forum
  • My kits
    • Home Lab NAS Kits
    • Intel Optane Swap Kit
    • VMware Compatible Mini PCs
  • Podcast
  • DevOps
  • Virtualization
    • Proxmox
    • VMware
    • Hyper-V
    • XCP-ng
  • Containers
    • Kubernetes
  • Mini PC & Server
  • Home Lab
    • My Home Lab
    • Nested ESXi Lab
    • Proxmox Build 2025
  • About
    • Contact
    • Disclaimer
    • E-books
    • Privacy
  • Newsletter
11

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.
VMUG VMware vRNI bundled with NSX offering
NSX

VMUG VMware vRNI bundled with NSX offering

As we had posted a while back, VMUG Advantage Evalexperience had seriously sweetened the already sweet deal of the Advantage subscription by adding in VMware NSX to the mix. This…

by Brandon LeeJune 7, 2017January 11, 2021
Install ScaleIO 2.0 in VMware vSphere 6
Software Defined Storage

Install ScaleIO 2.0 in VMware vSphere 6

In talking about software defined storage, most are familiar with VMware vSAN.  However, there is another extremely powerful SDS solution available for free from EMC called StorageIO.  StorageIO is free…

by Brandon LeeJune 6, 2017January 11, 2021
Install VMware Pester PowerCLI Configuration Management
VMware PowerCLI

Install VMware Pester PowerCLI Configuration Management

PowerShell can do so many cool things for us not just from an automation standpoint but also from a configuration management standpoint.  I wanted to help give some visibility to…

by Brandon LeeJune 5, 2017February 12, 2024
Automate and Repurpose Old PCs into Thin Client VDI
VDI

Automate and Repurpose Old PCs into Thin Client VDI

In many enterprise environments that may have aging desktop hardware and who are looking to transition to a VDI solution for end users, there are often difficult fiscal decisions that…

by Brandon LeeJune 1, 2017January 11, 2021
Monitor Active Directory Changes with Netwrix Auditor
Software

Monitor Active Directory Changes with Netwrix Auditor

Auditing environments is definitely a labor intensive task if done manually. Why do something manually when we can employ either automation or software to do this for us? Active Directory…

by Brandon LeeMay 31, 2017January 11, 2021
Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.1 supports Hyper-V Cluster Backups
Hyper-V

Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.1 supports Hyper-V Cluster Backups

Nakivo is certainly keeping a blistering pace of new features and functionality within the Backup & Replication product. The Nakivo Backup & Replication v7 release was huge in the features…

by Brandon LeeMay 30, 2017January 11, 2021
Automate VMware Best Practices with Runecast Analyzer
Software

Automate VMware Best Practices with Runecast Analyzer

One of the words that we typically hear a lot in the IT industry especially when thinking about configurations of hardware and software is “best practices”.  It is certainly important…

by Brandon LeeMay 29, 2017January 11, 2021
Automate vSwitch and VMkernel configuration VMware PowerCLI
VMware PowerCLI

Automate vSwitch and VMkernel configuration VMware PowerCLI

As we have already detailed in this post about how we can configure VMware clusters with PowerCLI and the benefits of doing so, the sky is the limit in what…

by Brandon LeeMay 26, 2017
VMware PowerCLI 6.5.1 New Way to Install
VMware PowerCLI

VMware PowerCLI 6.5.1 New Way to Install

If you haven’t updated your VMware PowerCLI installation in a while, you will be interested to know there is a new way to install VMware PowerCLI.  With the release of…

by Brandon LeeMay 25, 2017February 12, 2024
Windows 10 VM 99 percent disk utilization performance issue
Windows 10

Windows 10 VM 99 percent disk utilization performance issue

In troubleshooting a recent performance issue in my home lab environment on a couple of Windows 10 VMs that I had running, I had a peculiar issue that arose.  In…

by Brandon LeeMay 24, 2017January 11, 2021

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Proxmox Server Build Components

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

  • Minisforum BD795M
  • RackChoice 2U Micro ATX Compact
  • Cooler Master MWE Gold 850 V2
  • Noctua NH-L9i-17xx, Low-Profile CPU Cooler
  • ★ New! Crucial 128GB DDR5 SODIMM Kit
  • Crucial 96GB DDR5 SODIMM Kit
  • Intel X520-DA2 10 GbE Network Adapter
  • Kingston 240GB Drive for Boot
  • Samsung 990 Pro 2TB
  • MX-4 Thermal Paste

Gaming/Proxmox Build 2025

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

  • Thermaltake Tower 200
  • Minisforum BD790i X3D
  • Cooler Master MWE Gold 850 V2
  • ★ New! Crucial 128GB DDR5 SODIMM Kit
  • Arctic P12 Slim Fan
  • PNY NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 OC
  • Predator 1TB NVMe Boot Drive
  • Samsung 990 Pro 4TB – VM Storage
Subscribe to Home Lab Weekly on Substack
NAKIVO

Copyright © 2025 Virtualization Howto