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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.
Uptime Kuma Self-hosted application and server monitoring
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Uptime Kuma Self-hosted application and server monitoring

Monitoring is a critical part of running enterprise IT infrastructure. You need to know when critical services are down, or the underlying infrastructure has issues. Uptime Kuma provides visibility to…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 7, 2023December 6, 2023
Docker containers keeps restarting after reboot
Containers

Docker containers keeps restarting after reboot

If you have started working with Docker containers in your environment, you are undoubtedly seeing the benefits of running containers and the flexibility they bring to your application environment. However,…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 6, 2023January 10, 2024
Kubernetes vs. VMware vSphere comparison
Kubernetes

Kubernetes vs. VMware vSphere comparison

So many excellent technologies allow IT admins to solve complex technical problems and businesses to solve business problems in unique and innovative ways. VMware vSphere has long been around as…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 2, 2023January 22, 2024
NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10.8 GA new features download
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NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10.8 GA new features download

NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a great solution for enterprise backups and continues to add great new features with each release, including the v10.8 release, now the latest and greatest…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 30, 2023October 28, 2023
Server Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
Monitoring

Server Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Many great free and open-source monitoring solutions are available for monitoring your servers and applications. In case you have not heard about the free and open-source monitoring solution, Prometheus, we…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 26, 2023August 3, 2024
Hyper-V Virtual SAN synchronization with StarWind Virtual SAN
Software Defined Storage

Hyper-V Virtual SAN synchronization with StarWind Virtual SAN

The StarWind Virtual SAN solution is one of the easiest ways to run software-defined virtual SAN in Hyper-V. It has many great features that were recently updated to provide an…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 24, 2023January 17, 2024
VMware Resource Pool vs Cluster Comparison
VMware

VMware Resource Pool vs Cluster Comparison

There are many different constructs as part of the VMware vSphere environment with vCenter Server and ESXi. VMware vSphere provides many excellent capabilities and tools as part of the vSphere…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 23, 2023January 22, 2024
Proxmox scripts PowerShell Ansible and Terraform
Proxmox

Proxmox scripts PowerShell Ansible and Terraform

Proxmox is growing more and more popular, especially for home lab enthusiasts and those looking to spin up labs based on totally free and open-source software. Proxmox has a great…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 20, 2023December 18, 2023
Free Virtual Storage Appliance StarWind SAN & NAS new features
Software Defined Storage

Free Virtual Storage Appliance StarWind SAN & NAS new features

In the virtualized environment, we can use many great tools for storage resources. These include virtual storage appliances, especially to attach to running virtual machine instances in the environment, like…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 16, 2023October 25, 2023
Best docker containers for Synology NAS
Containers

Best docker containers for Synology NAS

I am a big fan of Docker containers and Synology NAS devices. The great thing about Synology NAS units with the Synology DSM operating system is it allows running docker…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 13, 2023August 3, 2024

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