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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.
Storage Admin Weekly Checklist
Virtualization

Storage Admin Weekly Checklist

If part of your system administration tasks involve managing storage especially for virtualization host targets, there are several things that you should probably be doing on a weekly basis to…

by Brandon LeeApril 4, 2016January 11, 2021
Suddenlink offers unlimited data for small fee
Cool Stuff

Suddenlink offers unlimited data for small fee

The rumors have been confirmed – Suddenlink offers unlimited data for small fee for existing customers.  New customers can actually take advantage of a free offer for unlimited data package…

by Brandon LeeApril 1, 2016
Use powershell see important account properties
Powershell

Use powershell see important account properties

When it comes to querying Active Directory, there is no easier way to see information about user and computer objects than by using Powershell.  Powershell provides access to query on…

by Brandon LeeApril 1, 2016January 11, 2021
Upgrade VMware vRealize Operations Manager vROPs 6.2
vSphere 6

Upgrade VMware vRealize Operations Manager vROPs 6.2

In rolling through quite a few upgrades recently, I wanted to posted some screenshots and process notes of upgrading vROPs 6.0.2 I had running in my environment to 6.2.  The…

by Brandon LeeMarch 31, 2016January 11, 2021
Simulate latency virtualization test lab
Virtualization

Simulate latency virtualization test lab

One of the coolest parts of having a virtualization environment is that you can setup as many labs as you want or as many as you have the hardware resources…

by Brandon LeeMarch 29, 2016January 11, 2021
Expecting 2 bootbanks found 0 VMware ESXi 6
vSphere 6

Expecting 2 bootbanks found 0 VMware ESXi 6

I ran into a pesky issue yesterday when rolling through a slew of host updates in a few production clusters.  I had one host that presented with some odd issues…

by Brandon LeeMarch 29, 2016January 11, 2021
Update manager Upgrade VMware ESXi 6.0 update 2
vSphere 6

Update manager Upgrade VMware ESXi 6.0 update 2

Below are the simple and easy steps to get your ESXi 6.0 u1 or earlier installation to update 2 (3620759) version.  Using update manager the process is very simple.  Make…

by Brandon LeeMarch 28, 2016March 28, 2024
VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 2 Host Client
vSphere 6

VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 2 Host Client

With the release of ESXi 6.0 Update 2, one of the cool things with this release is VMware has included as RTM the Host Client which is written in HTML5…

by Brandon LeeMarch 23, 2016January 11, 2021
Cisco VIRL Review
Networking

Cisco VIRL Review

After using Cisco VIRL for a few days now, I wanted to write up a post on my thoughts and maybe even calling it a pseudo Cisco VIRL review of…

by Brandon LeeMarch 22, 2016January 11, 2021
Intel Proset no vlans or teaming in Windows 10
Windows 10

Intel Proset no vlans or teaming in Windows 10

In helping out with a Windows 10 upgrade project on a precision workstation, I stumbled onto a show stopper issue with the Intel Proset drivers.  After the upgrade to Windows…

by Brandon LeeMarch 21, 2016March 21, 2016

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