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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.
VMware Horizon Log4j patch workaround
Security

VMware Horizon Log4j patch workaround

The fallout from the Log4j vulnerability continues to make ripples across organizations at the time of year when the last thing many want to hear about is a major security…

by Brandon LeeDecember 21, 2021April 24, 2024
VMware vCenter Server Log4j patch script remediation process
Security

VMware vCenter Server Log4j patch script remediation process

In case you haven’t heard, Apache Log4j is arguably the biggest vulnerability found across the board since Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities were disclosed, due to the sheer scope of the vulnerability. It…

by Brandon LeeDecember 20, 2021December 26, 2021
DIY fibre channel SAN with High Availability using StarWind VSAN
Software Defined Storage

DIY fibre channel SAN with High Availability using StarWind VSAN

Many organizations have long used fibre channel as their preferred storage platform of choice. While iSCSI and other protocols have dominated markets over the past decade or so, fibre channel…

by Brandon LeeDecember 20, 2021December 20, 2021
Configure Pi-hole SSL using a self-signed certificate
Security

Configure Pi-hole SSL using a self-signed certificate

I have been playing around a lot with Pi-hole lately. If you are new to Pi-hole and what it can do, take a look at my blog post here on…

by Brandon LeeDecember 17, 2021December 17, 2021
Runecast 6.0 released with new features including Log4j scanning
Software

Runecast 6.0 released with new features including Log4j scanning

It is always a great feeling when you are able to watch a product or solution that you knew was destined to be great, form, grow, and develop over time…

by Brandon LeeDecember 16, 2021December 16, 2021
Install Pi-hole in Ubuntu 21.04
Security

Install Pi-hole in Ubuntu 21.04

These days there are threats everywhere you turn when using electronic devices. Most of us are targeted for ads everywhere we go and every device we browse, search or place…

by Brandon LeeDecember 15, 2021January 10, 2024
Backup Strategy for Ransomware attacks
Backup Software

Backup Strategy for Ransomware attacks

If there is one worry among organizations today concerning their data, it has to be ransomware. Ransomware is continuing to plague businesses at an alarming rate. Ransomware variants are continuing…

by Brandon LeeDecember 14, 2021December 14, 2021
Critical Vulnerability in Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228 is VMware affected?
Security

Critical Vulnerability in Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228 is VMware affected?

Well, unfortunately, it seems like we are ending the year on a dangerous critical vulnerability. Just a couple of days ago, a critical vulnerability in Apache Log4j identified by CVE-2021-44228…

by Brandon LeeDecember 12, 2021February 9, 2022
Change ESXi Management IP Address and VLAN on vSphere Distributed Switches VDS
Networking

Change ESXi Management IP Address and VLAN on vSphere Distributed Switches VDS

As I have posted the last few days, I have been undertaking some home lab network redesign and moving a few things around. This includes carving out a proper management…

by Brandon LeeDecember 10, 2021December 11, 2023
VMware NSX-T 3.2 Released New Features
NSX-T

VMware NSX-T 3.2 Released New Features

There is arguably not another software-defined networking solution that has had the impact of VMware NSX. It has revolutionized the way organizations can carry out network operations in their environments.…

by Brandon LeeDecember 9, 2021December 9, 2021

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