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 Automation

Brandon LeeJanuary 7, 2021
0 8,348

Ansible Provisioning VMware with vmware_guest Example

Automation is certainly where it’s at these days in provisioning infrastructure. Ansible is one of the most popular automation tools across many different verticals and is extremely versatile. It works well with VMware vSphere as well to provision, configure, and…
Windows

Brandon LeeJanuary 6, 2021
0 40,316

Copy Files to Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL2 with SSH

In working with Windows Subsystem for Linux, you will undoubtedly want to work with files with your WSL Linux distribution. You may wonder how you can work with files effectively. This includes copying files both to and from Windows Subsystem…
Windows Subsystem for Linux

Brandon LeeJanuary 4, 2021
0 65,831

WSL2 Backup and Restore Images using Import and Export

Windows Subsystem for Linux is a great tool that many of you may use every day for various use cases. it is a great way to have quick access to Linux shell tools without having to spin up a VM…
Horizon View

Brandon LeeDecember 30, 2020
0 2,096

VMware Horizon UAG OKTA RADIUS configuration

When standing up a VMware Horizon production environment, you must think about securing the perimeter for end-users. We all know that passwords are one of the weakest links in your overall cybersecurity scheme. Multi-factor authentication with the very common two-factor…
Raspberry Pi

Brandon LeeDecember 29, 2020
0 645

Raspberry Pi Headless Wifi SSH Setup

The Raspberry Pi platform is one of the coolest platforms to work with when you need a physical headless server with a tiny footprint. There are tons of use cases, including home automation, security filtering and devices, and even ARM…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeDecember 28, 2020
0 110

Backup Microsoft Office 365 for Remote Workers with NAKIVO

There is no question that organizations have been tasked with protecting new types of data this year. With the global pandemic, businesses have had to shift their operations to the cloud in many cases, and cloud migration strategies have certainly…
Networking

Brandon LeeDecember 23, 2020
0 15,142

How to Add Wireless to a VMware Virtual Machine

Have you ever had the need to add wireless to a virtual machine? There are many use cases that come to mind. However, the other day, I had a specific need to test a connection from the “outside” rather than…
vSphere 7

Brandon LeeDecember 22, 2020
0 4,205

VMware vCenter Server 7 Update 1 Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion

By far, one of the coolest flings in existence has been the Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility. This fling has consistently been extremely popular, showing it resonated with VMware customers. What functionality has the fling provided? As the name suggests,…
VMware

Brandon LeeDecember 21, 2020
2 2,140

VMware ESXi 7 Update 1 Boot Disk is not Found PSOD

Since upgrading my Supermicro home lab to ESXi 7.0 GA and also ESXi 7 Update 1, I have seen a couple of issues that have plagued my lab environment. One was an issue where the vSAN daemon liveness check failed…
Automation

Brandon LeeDecember 18, 2020
0 5,277

Automate Letsencrypt Certificate Renewal with PowerShell

SSL certificates, especially in the home lab, can be difficult to manage and maintain if you have even a handful of VMs to eliminate certificate errors. Letsencrypt has been arguably the best development in the SSL space. It allows having…