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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.
Securing RDP access to Home Lab
home lab

Securing RDP access to Home Lab

One of the cool things about having a home lab is being able to reach it from anywhere.  Of course, when thinking about how you are going to make your…

by Brandon LeeMay 24, 2016January 18, 2024
Upgrade firmware Equallogic multiple member group
Virtualization

Upgrade firmware Equallogic multiple member group

I put together just a few notes after going through a recent project of an upgrade firmware Equallogic multiple member group.  Essentially the process is the same as upgrading a…

by Brandon LeeMay 19, 2016February 21, 2024
Remote Desktop Connection Manager Replacement
Software

Remote Desktop Connection Manager Replacement

I don’t typically write up a lot of posts about admin software unless I find something that I feel is truly worthy of letting others know about.  As many of…

by Brandon LeeMay 16, 2016January 11, 2021
Windows cannot be installed to this disk 4K drives
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Windows cannot be installed to this disk 4K drives

With the recent SuperMicro server build, I am utilizing Seagate ST8000NM0065 drives.  High density 4K drives are starting to come of age, however, there are still a few tricks required to…

by Brandon LeeMay 12, 2016January 11, 2021
Mount Virtual Media SuperMicro IPMI
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Mount Virtual Media SuperMicro IPMI

In the previous post here, I walked through the SuperMicro IPMI management interface and a few of the options that are available to administrators there for management of their SuperMicro…

by Brandon LeeMay 11, 2016January 11, 2021
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

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