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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.
Deploy pfSense VMware step-by-step
Networking

Deploy pfSense VMware step-by-step

One of the things I like to play around with in the home lab is firewalls and various firewall configurations that I work with in production environments. Arguably the most…

by Brandon LeeMarch 9, 2022October 25, 2023
Jumpstart ArcBox for Azure Arc Lab and Demo
Azure

Jumpstart ArcBox for Azure Arc Lab and Demo

Most organizations today are deploying cloud resources, including in Microsoft Azure. However, for many organizations, a fully cloud-native environment is simply not possible due to compliance or other reasons. A…

by Brandon LeeMarch 8, 2022October 28, 2023
JIRA Upgrade JIRA Core Self-managed Server
DevOps

JIRA Upgrade JIRA Core Self-managed Server

Most of you are no strangers to JIRA. It is arguably the most popular Agile project management solution adopted worldwide. Like most companies, Atlassian is pushing everyone to the cloud.…

by Brandon LeeMarch 7, 2022January 11, 2024
Identity Based Firewall configuration with NSX-T and vSphere
NSX-T

Identity Based Firewall configuration with NSX-T and vSphere

For years now, organizations have based application access and access to resources and files on identity. Typically, this is based on memberships to groups in Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services…

by Brandon LeeMarch 4, 2022March 4, 2022
Cloud Storage Windows Server 2022 and Azure File Sync
Windows Server 2022

Cloud Storage Windows Server 2022 and Azure File Sync

Most businesses today are looking at some type of cloud storage to go along with on-premises enterprise storage on their Windows Servers. Windows Server 2022 is the most advanced Windows…

by Brandon LeeMarch 3, 2022February 15, 2024
vSphere NSX-T installation and configuration
NSX-T

vSphere NSX-T installation and configuration

VMware NSX-T has certainly been rapidly maturing and has become an extremely robust and fully featured solution that transcends the VMware-only ecosystem to be a cloud software-defined networking solution for…

by Brandon LeeMarch 2, 2022March 2, 2022
Virtual firewall vs Physical firewall in the home lab
home lab

Virtual firewall vs Physical firewall in the home lab

So, in thinking about the direction of where my home lab is headed, I find myself using less and less discrete physical devices as opposed to running things as virtual…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 28, 2022November 22, 2023
Recover AWS EC2 SSH key lost or corrupted
Amazon AWS

Recover AWS EC2 SSH key lost or corrupted

Maybe you have been there before with an AWS EC2 instance and your SSH key no longer works. You may wonder, how is this possible? How am I going to…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 25, 2022February 25, 2022
How to Access Azure VM from outside
Azure

How to Access Azure VM from outside

When it comes to architecting cloud IaaS environments, one of the issues that always comes to the forefront after standing up infrastructure is access. How do engineers, developers, contractors, and…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 24, 2022February 24, 2022
Cameyo Cloud Virtual Application Delivery Now Chrome Enterprise recommended by Google
Digital Workspace

Cameyo Cloud Virtual Application Delivery Now Chrome Enterprise recommended by Google

Most businesses over the course of the past two years of the global pandemic have seen a paradigm shift in how they empower their remote employees to carry out business-critical…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 23, 2022November 22, 2023

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