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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.
Change VMware NSX Controller Settings
Computers

Change VMware NSX Controller Settings

If you are looking into NSX especially in a lab environment, the resource requirements for the NSX virtual infrastructure is quite costly.  Especially with high availability, you are looking at…

by Brandon LeeAugust 2, 2016January 11, 2021
Windows 10 static address shows 169 address
Windows 10

Windows 10 static address shows 169 address

Today I ran into a weird situation with a Windows 10 VM that I wanted to write up a quick post about.  Having provisioned a Windows 10 VM from a…

by Brandon LeeAugust 2, 2016January 11, 2021
Troubleshooting general SQL connectivity issues
SQL

Troubleshooting general SQL connectivity issues

There are quite a few things that an administrator may need to check when it comes to making sure connectivity to SQL is happy and healthy in your respective environments.…

by Brandon LeeJuly 29, 2016January 11, 2021
Map a network drive from remote desktop back to local computer
Windows

Map a network drive from remote desktop back to local computer

If you are working a lot with remote desktop sessions especially in lab environments where network segmentation is present, there are often many situations where it is beneficial to have…

by Brandon LeeJuly 29, 2016January 11, 2021
See what user you are connecting to linked SQL server
SQL

See what user you are connecting to linked SQL server

I wanted to share with you guys a really handy little SQL query that is extremely useful if you are troubleshooting SQL Server linked server connectivity.  You may have setup…

by Brandon LeeJuly 28, 2016February 9, 2024
Kill a Windows service quick tip
Windows

Kill a Windows service quick tip

Just a quick tip from the trenches that I have used numerous times over the years to deal with problematic Windows services.  Let’s take a look at the “kill a…

by Brandon LeeJuly 26, 2016January 11, 2021
Altaro Update Supports Hyper-V CBT
Virtualization

Altaro Update Supports Hyper-V CBT

In case you haven’t heard as of yet, with the lastest round of releases from Altaro, i.e. version 6.5, the Altaro update supports Hyper-V CBT or change block tracking, which…

by Brandon LeeJuly 25, 2016January 11, 2021
Use same domain login for production and lab
Virtualization

Use same domain login for production and lab

Labs are cool right?  We can use them for many use cases when it comes to testing and proof of concept mock ups.  If you have been tasked to spin…

by Brandon LeeJuly 25, 2016January 11, 2021
Veeam the object has already been deleted or has not been completely created
Virtualization

Veeam the object has already been deleted or has not been completely created

A quick post here of an issue I ran into supporting a Veeam Backup job in a particular environment.  After needing to restore a handful of VMs to rollback a…

by Brandon LeeJuly 21, 2016January 11, 2021
P2V Windows Cluster Rapid Recovery
Virtualization

P2V Windows Cluster Rapid Recovery

The last few days I have been involved with a project to P2V an old Windows 2003 (yes cringe, bang head against wall now) cluster running SQL 2005.  The P2V…

by Brandon LeeJuly 19, 2016March 23, 2024

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