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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.
Nakivo Backup and Replication V7 Announced Adds Hyper-V Support
Computers

Nakivo Backup and Replication V7 Announced Adds Hyper-V Support

Nakivo Backup and Replication V7 Announced Adds Hyper-V Support – Nakivo who is known for rock solid and cutting edge VMware and Amazon EC2 backups has extended their offering to…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 12, 2017January 11, 2021
Add Local Storage in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
Hyper-V

Add Local Storage in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

One of the tasks you may need to accomplish when working with a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V host is adding local storage to the host.  Often, VMs will be housed…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 11, 2017January 11, 2021
Copy ISO file to Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
Hyper-V

Copy ISO file to Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

For those coming from the VMware world of doing things and wanting to get their feet wet with Hyper-V, one of the nagging little things that you might run into…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 10, 2017January 11, 2021
How to Verify VM Backups with Nakivo
Backup Software

How to Verify VM Backups with Nakivo

It can’t be stressed enough with backing up virtual environments, how important it is to verify your backups.  You can easily do that with Nakivo Backup and Replication verify backups with…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 10, 2017January 11, 2021
Copper 10g Twinax cables not linking
Networking

Copper 10g Twinax cables not linking

Most by now are running 10g network connections at least in the core network or especially in virtualization environments with top of rack switches aggregating network traffic from ESXi hosts.…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 6, 2017January 11, 2021
Monitoring Home Lab Network like Production
home lab

Monitoring Home Lab Network like Production

Most of us die hard geeks are running home labs as part of the never ending learning process AND because, well, we LIKE doing it enough, we want to tinker…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 4, 2017January 16, 2024
Vembu Quick VM Recovery Ensures Business Continuity with Minimal Downtime
Backup Software

Vembu Quick VM Recovery Ensures Business Continuity with Minimal Downtime

When disaster strikes and business operations are interrupted by either software or infrastructure failure, the RTO (recovery time objective) or quite simply “how long does it take to recover?” time…

by Brandon LeeDecember 30, 2016February 21, 2024
Export Nakivo Backup and Replication configuration to another appliance
Backup Software

Export Nakivo Backup and Replication configuration to another appliance

In looking at backup technologies available for virtual infrastructures today, Nakivo Backup and Replication is a leader and definitely one to watch in 2017 – tons of options and features!  One of…

by Brandon LeeDecember 29, 2016January 11, 2021
Veeam Restore Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Objects
Backup Software

Veeam Restore Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Objects

When thinking about DR, Active Directory backup and restoration is CRITICAL!  Period!  If you can restore all of your important SQL servers, Sharepoint, Exchange, exactly as they were in production…

by Brandon LeeDecember 29, 2016January 11, 2021
Great Free Linux Load Balancer
Software

Great Free Linux Load Balancer

If you are looking to play around with load balancing for free, then check out the Kemp LoadMaster virtual Appliance. The Kemp virtual appliance is a great free Linux Load…

by Brandon LeeDecember 28, 2016January 11, 2021

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