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.

Brandon LeeMarch 13, 2025
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Daily Tech Deals March 13 2025

Looking for great tech deals? Check out items on today’s daily tech deals. Today there are two really awesome 4 TB NVMe drives for 28% off, Dell OptiPlex 7020 MFF Mini PC for 14% off, MINISFORUM UM870 Slim Mini PC…
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Brandon LeeMarch 13, 2025
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Add NVMe slots to your Proxmox Server with Hardware and Bifurcation Mods!

So I have been doing all kinds of modding and strategizing on my Proxmox server and trying different things on my second Proxmox server build. Since I am using the Minisforum BD795i SE, this is a great board, but limited…
Brandon LeeMarch 12, 2025
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Daily Tech Deals March 12 2025

Looking for great tech deals? Check out items on today’s daily tech deals. Today there are two really awesome 4 TB NVMe drives for 28% off, an Lenovo Essential IdeaPad for 24% off, a 27-Inch OLED Gaming Monitor for 15%…
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Brandon LeeMarch 12, 2025
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Monitor Proxmox with CheckMK Open Source Monitoring

Many are utilizing Proxmox VE Server in their home labs. Proxmox is a great option for running virtual machines and containers and self-hosting. You will likely want to monitor your Proxmox environment with some type of tool to make sure…
Brandon LeeMarch 11, 2025
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Daily Tech Deals March 11 2025

Looking for great tech deals? Check out items on today’s daily tech deals. You can get the Keychron K2 75% Layout Bluetooth Wireless Mechanical Gaming Keyboard for 25% off, the GMKtec M5 Plus Gaming Mini PC for 20% off, the…
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Brandon LeeMarch 11, 2025
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PCIE Bifurcation and Why You Need It in Your Home Server

Building and running your own home server is one of the best ways to learn and allows ones to experiment and learn technologies that they might not get to learn in a production environment. When you are building your home…
Brandon LeeMarch 10, 2025
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Daily Tech Deals March 10 2025

Looking for great tech deals? Check out items on today’s daily tech deals. You can get a GMKtec Gaming Mini PC K8 Plus for 27% off , a GMKtec Mini PC AMD Ryzen 7 5825U for 17% off, a GMKtec…
home lab

Brandon LeeMarch 10, 2025
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Core Performance Boost Setting: Speed vs Power Consumption in Home Lab

I have built up a couple of Ryzen 9 7945HX home server builds over the past few weeks and have experimented a bit with the BIOS settings and things that ones may be interested in for home lab purposes. There…
Brandon LeeMarch 7, 2025
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Daily Tech Deals March 7 2025

Looking for great tech deals? Check out items on today’s daily tech deals. You can get a MeLE fanless mini PC for 20% off, an ASUS ROG Strix x670e-e motherboard for 27% off, a MINISFORUM UM890 Pro for 20% off,…
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Brandon LeeMarch 7, 2025
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Home Server Build 2025: Run Proxmox or VMware ESXi 16 Cores and 128GB RAM

I have been having fun building Proxmox servers with motherboards from Minisforum. I hadn’t really considered getting back into building servers as for literally the past 10 years I have been buying off the shelf servers from Supermicro for home…