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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.
Windows 10 Edge can’t be opened using the built-in administrator account
Windows 10

Windows 10 Edge can’t be opened using the built-in administrator account

With the release of Windows 10 today, many are spinning up VMs and loading the new workstation on test boxes to take a look at the final build version.  If…

by Brandon LeeJuly 29, 2015January 11, 2021
Home Lab Create a DMZ VLAN
Networking

Home Lab Create a DMZ VLAN

A really cool fun project I have been wanting to take on at home for a while now is to create a DMZ environment using my Cisco SG300-20 switch, VLANs,…

by Brandon LeeJuly 28, 2015January 16, 2024
Dell NSeries Switch Basic configuration cheat sheet
Networking

Dell NSeries Switch Basic configuration cheat sheet

In working recently with a few Dell NSeries switches on the bench and in production, I have created a simple cheat sheet for myself with configuration commands I find myself…

by Brandon LeeJuly 20, 2015June 29, 2016
Configure Sophos UTM to work with Filezilla FTP Server
Security

Configure Sophos UTM to work with Filezilla FTP Server

If you are running Sophos UTM at home and would like to use FileZilla FTP server, there are a few things that you need to setup to allow FTP communication…

by Brandon LeeJuly 8, 2015January 11, 2021
How to Sync Passwords between Child and Parent Domain with FIM 2010 R2
ActiveDirectory

How to Sync Passwords between Child and Parent Domain with FIM 2010 R2

For those of you in a multi domain environment due to the structure of your company or from migrations from legacy directory services into AD, there often is the need…

by Brandon LeeJune 26, 2015January 11, 2021
Basic Dell Powerconnect Nseries iSCSI switch configuration
Networking

Basic Dell Powerconnect Nseries iSCSI switch configuration

Recently, I got my hands on a couple of Dell PowerConnect 8132f switches for a client to configure for iSCSI traffic for a 3-node VMware cluster that was being implemented for…

by Brandon LeeJune 17, 2015January 11, 2021
Setting up VLANs Cisco SG300-20 Switch
Networking

Setting up VLANs Cisco SG300-20 Switch

The Cisco SG300-20 Switch is a great home lab switch that features most of the capabilities that ones see and use in the enterprise environment and for a cheap price.…

by Brandon LeeJune 5, 2015January 11, 2021
Setup a Hyper-V Cluster Lab in VMware Workstation
Hyper-V

Setup a Hyper-V Cluster Lab in VMware Workstation

Setting up a Hyper-V cluster lab in VMware Workstation is not too difficult and can easily be accomplished in a couple of hours worth of work to get things configured…

by Brandon LeeJune 2, 2015January 11, 2021
Change vRealize Operations Manager 6.01 appliance IP Address
vSphere 6

Change vRealize Operations Manager 6.01 appliance IP Address

Recently in upgrading a production vSphere 5.5 environment to 6.0, I have been working through the individual infrastructure pieces left over to upgrade.  I spun up a new vRealize Operations…

by Brandon LeeMay 20, 2015November 22, 2023
Install Dell OMSA 8.1 in ESXi 6.0 and add to OME
vSphere 6

Install Dell OMSA 8.1 in ESXi 6.0 and add to OME

Recently, after upgrading a Dell Cluster to vSphere 6.0, one of the tasks that I wanted to accomplish was to install the new Open Manage Server Administrator or OMSA in…

by Brandon LeeMay 18, 2015January 11, 2021

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