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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.
Overlapping Subnets Lab Environment
Virtualization

Overlapping Subnets Lab Environment

A while back I wrote up a post about creating an isolated test environment using the same ips and subnets with VMware.  This post was written from a layer 2…

by Brandon LeeApril 13, 2016January 11, 2021
Nested VMware Mobile Home Lab
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Nested VMware Mobile Home Lab

I wanted to write up a post about the specifics of my nested VMware mobile home lab, which is running on a Dell Precision Workstation laptop M4800.  This post is…

by Brandon LeeApril 11, 2016November 7, 2023
New HTML5 vSphere Web Client
vSphere 6

New HTML5 vSphere Web Client

With the new host UI that is present with vSphere ESXi 6 update 2, it gives us a taste of what the HTML5 web client might look like.  But alas,…

by Brandon LeeApril 7, 2016January 11, 2021
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

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