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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.
How to block ports with Cloudflare
Web

How to block ports with Cloudflare

If you are utilizing Cloudflare as a reverse proxy service for your backend webserver, you may desire to have Cloudflare block certain ports back to your webserver.  Cloudlfare passes along…

by Brandon LeeMay 12, 2015January 11, 2021
Upgrading Windows vCenter Server and Update Manager 5.5 to 6.0
vSphere 6

Upgrading Windows vCenter Server and Update Manager 5.5 to 6.0

The upgrade process to get from the Windows version of vCenter Server 5.5 and Update Manager 5.5 to 6.0 is very straightforward.  The installer in my case worked flawlessly and…

by Brandon LeeMay 9, 2015January 11, 2021
Cisco SG300-20 basic configuration for VMware Lab
Networking

Cisco SG300-20 basic configuration for VMware Lab

Cisco’s line of small business fully managed switches I think are really great for learning Cisco networking as well as having everything you need to create a really functional VMware…

by Brandon LeeMay 7, 2015January 11, 2021
Windows Server Technical Preview 2 Soft Reboot
Windows Server 2016

Windows Server Technical Preview 2 Soft Reboot

One of the highly anticipated features of the next Server OS from Microsoft is the soft reboot feature which allows for a soft reboot of services and the shell instead of having…

by Brandon LeeMay 6, 2015January 11, 2021
Windows Server Technical Preview 2 No GUI
Windows Server 2016

Windows Server Technical Preview 2 No GUI

For those of you like me who jumped on the opportunity to snag a copy of the new Server Technical preview which is most likely going to be Windows Server…

by Brandon LeeMay 5, 2015March 12, 2024
Installing and managing Hyper-V in VMware Workstation 11
Hyper-V

Installing and managing Hyper-V in VMware Workstation 11

If you want to use VMware workstation to play around with Hyper-V or create a Hyper-V lab, this is fairly easy to get up and running.  Let’s take a look…

by Brandon LeeMay 4, 2015January 11, 2021
Sophos false positive C2/Generic-A alerts
Security

Sophos false positive C2/Generic-A alerts

I wanted to put this out there to you guys and see if anyone else had a round of Sophos false positive C2/Generic-A alerts yesterday or the last couple of…

by Brandon LeeMay 1, 2015
Lab Deploy VCSA with Embedded Platform Services Controller
vSphere 6

Lab Deploy VCSA with Embedded Platform Services Controller

In building my most recent VMware lab inside of VMware workstation, I wanted to deploy the VCSA 6.0 with Embedded Platform Services Controller and step you guys through the process…

by Brandon LeeApril 29, 2015January 11, 2021
Lightweight DNS Server for VMware Lab
vSphere 6

Lightweight DNS Server for VMware Lab

For those of you who are building and working with your own VMware labs and using either physical home lab hardware or maybe using VMware workstation to setup your nested…

by Brandon LeeApril 29, 2015May 2, 2024
FreeNAS Change IP Address on iSCSI target VMware ESXi 6
vSphere 6

FreeNAS Change IP Address on iSCSI target VMware ESXi 6

FreeNAS is one of the easiest and coolest virtual SAN appliances out there for use with VMware and other Hypervisor labs.  If you have FreeNAS already setup and running with…

by Brandon LeeApril 22, 2015November 22, 2023

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