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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.
Best KVM based Hypervisors in 2024
Virtualization

Best KVM based Hypervisors in 2024

This may very well be the year of KVM-based hypervisors in 2024, aside from other options like Microsoft Hyper-V. Many are looking at different options this year for virtualization technologies…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 26, 2024August 21, 2024
How to build Xen Orchestra from Source code
XCP-ng

How to build Xen Orchestra from Source code

Xen Orchestra (XO) is the “vcenter like” frontend tool for managing XCP-ng hypervisor. It is freely available from Vates along with the free XCP-ng hypervisor as a xen orchestra turnkey…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 23, 2024February 23, 2024
VMware by Broadcom Lesson: Don’t base your career on a product
VMware

VMware by Broadcom Lesson: Don’t base your career on a product

I have been involved or at least associated with VMware solutions and infrastructure since circa 2004, which is quite a long time. Like most I was blown away by the…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 22, 2024February 22, 2024
Best Open-Source DevOps Monitoring Tools in 2024
DevOps

Best Open-Source DevOps Monitoring Tools in 2024

This blog post looks at the best open-source monitoring tools in DevOps in 2024 for continuous monitoring tools, many of which you can run in Docker on-premises in prod or…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 21, 2024August 21, 2024
Kasm Workspaces Install: 5 Steps to Run your Linux Desktop inside a Docker container
Containers

Kasm Workspaces Install: 5 Steps to Run your Linux Desktop inside a Docker container

If you are looking for one of the slickest and coolest solutions for streaming applications and desktops in your home lab or production, I want to introduce you to Kasm.…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 20, 2024February 20, 2024
Best Server OS in 2024 in Five Categories
home lab

Best Server OS in 2024 in Five Categories

When thinking about the best server operating system in 2024, there are a wide range of use cases that servers are used for. Given the wide variety of those use…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 19, 2024August 22, 2024
Windows 11 24H2 New Features and Download
Windows 11

Windows 11 24H2 New Features and Download

Many users are anticipating the news and annual feature update cadence of Microsoft’s client operating system as the updates and rumors have been floating around blog article posts and YouTube…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 16, 2024February 16, 2024
ECS Anywhere: Run AWS Containers on your Home Server On-premises!
Containers

ECS Anywhere: Run AWS Containers on your Home Server On-premises!

So many services are either “cloud only” or “only on-premises” technologies. However, what if you wanted a blend of both running in your home lab or in production when it…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 15, 2024August 22, 2024
Proxmox Containers with Fedora CoreOS Install
Proxmox

Proxmox Containers with Fedora CoreOS Install

I recently looked at the installation of Fedora CoreOS on VMware. In the home lab, many are running Proxmox and maybe more coming up will be switching from VMware over…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 14, 2024August 22, 2024
Best Free Hypervisors Now That VMware ESXi Free Edition is Dead
VMware

Best Free Hypervisors Now That VMware ESXi Free Edition is Dead

In case you haven’t heard, VMware “by Broadcom” has killed free ESXi. So, it is no longer a viable option for those looking for the best free hypervisor. It is…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 13, 2024March 18, 2024

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