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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.
Supermicro IPMI management walkthrough
home lab

Supermicro IPMI management walkthrough

If you are utilizing Supermicro in your lab environment, there is a great feature that comes with Supermicro boards that allows BMC IPMI management of the server.  It is basically…

by Brandon LeeMay 6, 2016January 11, 2021
Add Cloudflare IPs Amazon EC2 Security Group
Security

Add Cloudflare IPs Amazon EC2 Security Group

If you are utilizing Cloudflare as your DNS/CDN provider for your website and you are utilizing an Amazon EC2 instance as your host, let’s take a quick look at the…

by Brandon LeeMay 6, 2016January 11, 2021
TCP Auto-tuning slow network performance
Networking

TCP Auto-tuning slow network performance

Starting with Windows Vista, there were improvements made to the network stack including a little known feature called TCP Window Auto-tuning.  The auto-tuning feature allows newer versions of Windows to…

by Brandon LeeMay 5, 2016January 11, 2021
Design Considerations LACP LAG
Networking

Design Considerations LACP LAG

Link Aggregation Groups are multiple connections between two switches that allow the switch to aggregate links/bandwidth between them.  LAG’s are typically dumb in themselves without using Link Aggregation Control Protocol,…

by Brandon LeeMay 2, 2016January 11, 2021
Windows 2012 R2 NPS log files location configuration
Security

Windows 2012 R2 NPS log files location configuration

After a bit of frustration working on a project recently with a Windows 2012 R2 NPS RADIUS server, I had a bit of a refresher on Windows 2012 R2 NPS…

by Brandon LeeApril 22, 2016January 11, 2021
Cisco VIRL 1.1.1 Upgrade
Networking

Cisco VIRL 1.1.1 Upgrade

Well after running Cisco VIRL for a while it has definitely grown on me and with each release it gets better.  I have been meaning to upgrade to the latest…

by Brandon LeeApril 20, 2016January 11, 2021
Glasswire Windows 10 Network Monitor and Firewall
Networking

Glasswire Windows 10 Network Monitor and Firewall

If you are looking for a great, versatile and useful network monitor and firewall for Windows 10 besides the builtin functionality provided in the box with Windows 10, meet Glasswire.…

by Brandon LeeApril 18, 2016January 11, 2021
Install KVM Ubuntu Server VMware Workstation
Virtualization

Install KVM Ubuntu Server VMware Workstation

If you want to play around with KVM virtualization inside of VMware Workstation, this is quick and easy to do with a few steps.  Let’s take a look at how…

by Brandon LeeApril 18, 2016February 6, 2024
Install Devstack Openstack Ubuntu VM
Openstack

Install Devstack Openstack Ubuntu VM

If you want to get your feet wet with Openstack, there is a great project available called Devstack which allows you to create a VM with an all in one…

by Brandon LeeApril 15, 2016April 15, 2024
Connect Vaultpress AWS EC2 instance
Web

Connect Vaultpress AWS EC2 instance

For those that blog with WordPress and want to consider a good backup solution for their blog, there are a few options out there.  However, one that is pretty straightforward…

by Brandon LeeApril 14, 2016January 11, 2021

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