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.
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    NAKIVO Backup and Replication v10.1 Beta New Features

    Hot on the heels of the latest NAKIVO release, NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10.0, NAKIVO has released the latest beta version of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10.1 beta. There are a couple of really nice features that are contained in…

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    VMware Unified Access Gateway UAG 3.10 Upgrade

    With the release of VMware Horizon 8 aka 2006, many are no doubt revisiting their Horizon infrastructure looking at updates across the board. We just recently took a look at the VMware Horizon 8 Upgrade of the Connection Server. What…

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    VMware Horizon 8 Upgrade Connection Servers

    VMware Horizon 8 has landed as general availability today per the blog post from VMware here. VMware Horizon 8 represents an evolution of the VMware Horizon product. In fact, VMware is rebranding the product now to simply “VMware Horizon”. The…

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    Upgrade VMware vSAN 6.7 U3 to vSAN 7.0

    There are many great advantages of the new VMware vSAN 7 with VMware vSphere 7.0. I have been running vSAN 6.7 U3 in the home lab for quite a long while now. Once backup vendors started announcing their support for…

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    VMware Horizon 8 Announced New Features

    With this year certainly being the “Year of VDI” like none other largely due to the global pandemic, organizations have had to reorganize their entire workforce to a mostly remote work layout. Organizations have had to look at solutions they…

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    Dell EMC Live Optics Installation and Running against vSphere

    If you have worked with Dell over the years, you have no doubt interfaced with various tools they have provided over the years to gather diagnostic and performance data for your environment. When you engage a Dell technical sales team…

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    VMware vSphere Cheat Sheet

    On a somewhat daily basis, I have ones that I interface with who have questions about basic VMware vSphere terminology and what these refer to and mean. While most organizations at this point have had some experience with VMware, the…

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    I have been running VMware vSphere 7 in my nested environments for some time now. So, as of recently, I had decided to go ahead and get my production physical hosts in the home lab updated to vSphere 7 as…

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    VMware vSphere 7.0 Performance PDF Download

    Performance is certainly one of those “bear” things that as practitioners we have to address when working with virtualized environments. Performance can be difficult to troubleshoot at times and can certainly require some trained guidance to know what to look…

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    LetsEncrypt Windows Server 2019 Configuration

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