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.

Backup Software

Brandon LeeMarch 15, 2017
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Vembu BDR Suite Consistent Application Aware Backup and Restore

Vembu BDR Suite allows for application aware backups and restoration of application/transactional resources such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, etc. This is a key feature of modern backup solutions as transactional aware backups are critical in today’s data/application rich environments. …
Security

Brandon LeeMarch 13, 2017
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Sophos Home Edition Installation and Configuration

If you are looking for an enterprise class virus scan package for home for multiple pcs that is free, you may want to take a look at Sophos Home edition. With Sophos Home, you can secure 10 MAC & Windows…
NSX

Brandon LeeMarch 10, 2017
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Upgrading VMware NSX Manager to 6.3.1

With the release of VMware NSX 6.3, we now have NSX compatibility with vSphere 6.5a and higher. Recently released was the upgrade patch to upgrade to NSX 6.3.1 which is mostly a bug fix release with specific customer bugs. In…
Networking

Brandon LeeMarch 9, 2017
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How to add Cisco NX-OSv in GNS3

In provisioning a quick lab scenario inside of GNS3, I wanted to use the NX-OSv image to simulate some real hardware. For those that may not know, as I wrote about, you can take images downloaded via the Cisco VIRL…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeMarch 8, 2017
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Restoring Hyper-V VMs with Nakivo Backup and Replication V7

Nakivo Backup & Replication V7 Beta introduced Hyper-V backups. I am very pleased with the initial showing of this feature in V7. Nakivo has extended their very powerful and robust backup solution that we have seen for VMware as well…
VMware PowerCLI

Brandon LeeMarch 7, 2017
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VMware PowerCLI Add Harddisk and Attach to Paravirtual Controller

There are certainly performance benefits to using the VMware ParaVirtual controller, especially in extreme load conditions. According to VMware’s own documentation, the PVSCSI controller provides 8% better throughput at 10% lower CPU cost. There are also performance benefits to use…
Windows Server 2016

Brandon LeeMarch 6, 2017
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Enable Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Recycle Bin

In our last post, we talked about the Active Directory Administrative Center in Windows Server 2016. ADAC is a great way to interface with Active Directory with a task oriented GUI interface. One of the things we can do from…
Windows Server 2016

Brandon LeeMarch 3, 2017
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Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Administrative Center

A lesser known feature in Windows Server beginning with Windows Server 2008 R2 is the Active Directory Administrative Center that allows administrators what basically looks like Server Manager to administer Active Directory environments. The Active Directory Administrative Center or ADAC…
SQL

Brandon LeeMarch 2, 2017
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SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Error Valid Database compatibility level

In updating a few SQL Server 2014 servers recently, I ran into an error with a new SQL Server 2014 Server running the upgrade to SQL Server 2016. It was a SQL Server 2016 upgrade error valid database compatibility level.…
SQL

Brandon LeeMarch 1, 2017
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How to Upgrade SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2016

With SQL Server 2016 currently at SP1 as well as a CU1 under its belt, many may be thinking of upgrading existing SQL Server 2014 installations to SQL Server 2016. The upgrade process is painless as you will see below.…