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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.
VMTurbo Free Virtual Environment Monitoring and Operations Management
Virtualization

VMTurbo Free Virtual Environment Monitoring and Operations Management

Many may be looking for free virtual environment monitoring and operations management.  There is a great solution out there in VMTurbo which is a free signup and download.  It provides…

by Brandon LeeApril 20, 2015January 11, 2021
Installing MS15-034 Reboot Required
Security

Installing MS15-034 Reboot Required

With the recent security alert concerning the “bluescreen of death” bug in Windows IIS servers from II7 and higher being affected, many are scrambling to hit maintenance windows to install…

by Brandon LeeApril 17, 2015January 11, 2021
How to update an ESXi 6.0 host from commandline
vSphere 6

How to update an ESXi 6.0 host from commandline

The process of updating an ESXi 6.0 host from commandline is a very painless operation.  Especially if you have a standalone host and don’t have access to VUM for updates, this procedure…

by Brandon LeeApril 17, 2015January 11, 2021
Upgrade VMware PowerCLI 5.8 to 6.0
vSphere 6

Upgrade VMware PowerCLI 5.8 to 6.0

If you are into automating tasks in your VMware environment, there is no better way to do those tasks than with Powershell and the PowerCLI commandlets.  With the release now…

by Brandon LeeApril 16, 2015January 11, 2021
Setup RDP Two Factor Authentication with Duo Security
Security

Setup RDP Two Factor Authentication with Duo Security

Remote desktop servers that are sitting out in DMZ’s or just forward facing RDP enabled servers are security risks at best since they are configured to answer to remote desktop…

by Brandon LeeApril 16, 2015January 11, 2021
OLE DB provider SQLNCLI11 for linked server unable to begin distributed transaction
SQL

OLE DB provider SQLNCLI11 for linked server unable to begin distributed transaction

Today in working with a new virtual machine that was spun up with Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014, I was asked to troubleshoot an issue where distributed…

by Brandon LeeApril 15, 2015January 11, 2021
Good VMware Home Lab Switch
Networking

Good VMware Home Lab Switch

Recently, I was looking to snag a really good VMware home lab switch for a couple of hosts and shared storage to replace an aging run of the mill HP switch…

by Brandon LeeApril 14, 2015April 8, 2024
Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster SQL 2012 SSL configuration
SQL

Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster SQL 2012 SSL configuration

A project recently had me working on Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster SQL 2012 SSL configuration for an international company who had recently provisioned this new Windows cluster to replace an…

by Brandon LeeApril 9, 2015January 11, 2021
Monitor LSI Megaraid RAID controller in VMware
Computers

Monitor LSI Megaraid RAID controller in VMware

Last week in working with a “whitebox” ESXi server running a VMware lab that was running on an LSI 9280-16i4E controller, the need arose to monitor LSI Megaraid storage controller…

by Brandon LeeMarch 30, 2015January 11, 2021
Tape vs Disk vs Cloud backup what solutions are you using?
Disaster Recovery

Tape vs Disk vs Cloud backup what solutions are you using?

I wanted to shoot a post out there to you guys visiting the site to see which solutions for backup you are using in your enterprise environment.  In doing consulting…

by Brandon LeeMarch 27, 2015

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