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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.
Kubernetes Bare Metal Load Balancer configuration with Nginx
Kubernetes

Kubernetes Bare Metal Load Balancer configuration with Nginx

Creating a new Kubernetes cluster in Portainer

by Brandon LeeJanuary 11, 2022November 22, 2023
Virtualization vs Containerization in 2022 home lab
home lab

Virtualization vs Containerization in 2022 home lab

I have been revisiting many of the infrastructure components and services running in the home lab environment. You can read my VMware Home Lab and Learning Goals 2022 post to…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 10, 2022November 22, 2023
VMSA-2022-0001 CD-ROM vulnerability patch workaround and Locked CD-ROM error
VMware PowerCLI

VMSA-2022-0001 CD-ROM vulnerability patch workaround and Locked CD-ROM error

Well, closely on the heels of the Log4j vulnerability, we have started 2022 with a new VMSA-2022-0001 released from VMware. The new vulnerability affects a wide range of products, including…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 6, 2022November 24, 2023
Securing Virtual Workspaces with Praim ThinOX
VDI

Securing Virtual Workspaces with Praim ThinOX

No longer are the majority of workers driving into the office. The remote workforce has taken shape and is a trend that will undoubtedly continue. As a result, businesses have…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 5, 2022January 5, 2022
VMware Event Broker Appliance VEBA tutorial: How to create an email notification
Automation

VMware Event Broker Appliance VEBA tutorial: How to create an email notification

Among the really cool projects I have stood up in the lab as of recently is the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA). If you have not heard about VEBA and…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 4, 2022March 23, 2024
Create Kubernetes Cluster with Rancher and VMware vSphere
Kubernetes

Create Kubernetes Cluster with Rancher and VMware vSphere

How is your Kubernetes journey kicking off in 2022? While Kubernetes is already wildly popular it is feeling more like 2022 and beyond is going to be the year that…

by Brandon LeeJanuary 3, 2022October 28, 2023
Rancher connect to existing cluster
Kubernetes

Rancher connect to existing cluster

One of the challenges with working with plain Kubernetes is the number of low-level management tasks that must be handled using the command line, specifically with the kubectl command. While…

by Brandon LeeDecember 30, 2021January 19, 2024
Terraform vSphere Kubernetes automated lab build in 8 minutes
Kubernetes

Terraform vSphere Kubernetes automated lab build in 8 minutes

While Kubernetes has been wildly popular for quite some time now, I think many are just starting their journey of learning Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. If you are like me,…

by Brandon LeeDecember 28, 2021December 28, 2021
Patch two new Active Directory privilege escalation bugs
Security

Patch two new Active Directory privilege escalation bugs

If Log4j wasn’t enough, Microsoft has upped the alert on two new Active Directory bugs that now have a PoC tool in the wild. What are the new Active Directory…

by Brandon LeeDecember 27, 2021April 24, 2024
Easy vCenter Server two-factor authentication without ADFS
Security

Easy vCenter Server two-factor authentication without ADFS

One of the new features added in vSphere 7 is the new identity federation component that allows organizations to point vCenter Server to an external identity source for the authentication…

by Brandon LeeDecember 22, 2021January 6, 2022

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