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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.
pfSense Proxmox Install Process and Configuration
Proxmox

pfSense Proxmox Install Process and Configuration

Many great open source solutions are available these days for many use cases, including security, networking, routing, etc. Two of those include pfSense and Proxmox server. Proxmox VE is an…

by Brandon LeeAugust 26, 2022April 16, 2024
Windows Server 2022 backup and restore
Windows Server 2022

Windows Server 2022 backup and restore

Pi-Hold DNS sinkholing

by Brandon LeeAugust 25, 2022December 4, 2023
Proxmox Update No Subscription Repository Configuration
Proxmox

Proxmox Update No Subscription Repository Configuration

If you are delving into running Proxmox VE for your home lab or other use cases and are coming from other hypervisors you may have been playing around with, like…

by Brandon LeeAugust 23, 2022August 20, 2025
Free Virtual SAN Storage Software with StarWind
Software Defined Storage

Free Virtual SAN Storage Software with StarWind

In your home lab environment or production use cases, you may need shared storage for virtualization, scale-out repositories, high availability, hyperconverged infrastructure, and other use cases – free Virtual SAN…

by Brandon LeeAugust 22, 2022October 25, 2023
VMware vSAN Direct configuration and requirements
vSAN

VMware vSAN Direct configuration and requirements

VMware continues to evolve the VMware vSAN solution, giving organizations even more storage options with their VMware vSAN configurations in a vSAN cluster. One of those options is the VMware…

by Brandon LeeAugust 19, 2022December 18, 2023
vSAN Witness Appliance Deployment
vSAN

vSAN Witness Appliance Deployment

One of the powerful deployments of VMware vSAN is the vSAN stretched cluster configuration. With vSAN stretched cluster, the vSAN data nodes have a vSAN stretched cluster datastore between them,…

by Brandon LeeAugust 17, 2022November 22, 2023
VMware vRealize Automation 8.9 Released New Features with Kubernetes Automation
vRealize Suite

VMware vRealize Automation 8.9 Released New Features with Kubernetes Automation

Automation is king today in the enterprise data center to get things done consistently, quickly, and in a way that can be versioned. New application development is a growing trend…

by Brandon LeeAugust 16, 2022January 1, 2024
5 reasons why you need an offsite data backup
Backup Software

5 reasons why you need an offsite data backup

It is not something businesses like to think about – disasters, requiring organizations to recover data. However, losing critical files in the data center is an event that requires businesses…

by Brandon LeeAugust 15, 2022March 4, 2024
NVMe server for vSAN virtual machines
home lab

NVMe server for vSAN virtual machines

Just a few years ago, an NVMe server would have been a premium to have either in the enterprise or at home. However, with the availability of NVMe drives and…

by Brandon LeeAugust 12, 2022December 6, 2023
VMware NSX-T 4.0.0.1 has a new name and new features!
NSX

VMware NSX-T 4.0.0.1 has a new name and new features!

In case you missed the announcement a few days back, the latest release of VMware NSX-T has landed with new features and functionality and also a new name for VMware…

by Brandon LeeAugust 8, 2022February 26, 2024

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