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.

DevOps

Brandon LeeJuly 15, 2020
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Installing Hashicorp Vault Password Management in Ubuntu 18.04

One of the things that I have been wanting to do for quite some time now is play around with Hashicorp Vault in the lab. In case you haven’t heard (which is doubtful), Hashicorp Vault allows you to have a…
VMware Automation

Brandon LeeJuly 14, 2020
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Ansible Deploy Multiple VM from Template VMware

Ansible is a tremendously powerful tool for automation across the board. When it comes to VMware, Ansible has a large array of modules that allow you to effectively interact with your vSphere environment. This includes managing VMware vSphere virtual machines.…
NSX-T

Brandon LeeJuly 13, 2020
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VMware NSX-T Global Manager Appliance Install

One of the really great new features of NSX-T 3.0 and higher is the introduction of the Global Manager appliance. With the global manager appliance, you have access to the really cool new features in NSX-T 3 such as NSX…
Workstation

Brandon LeeJuly 10, 2020
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VMware Workstation 20H2 Tech Preview VCTL Containers

Just a day ago, VMware posted news that a new Tech Preview had been released – Workstation 20H2. This release contains major new features and improvements. The biggest new feature with this Tech Preview is containers. That’s right, with this…
home lab

Brandon LeeJuly 9, 2020
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Supermicro VMware Home Lab Automatic Power On and Power Off

Running a VMware vSphere home lab is a great way to learn and grow as a virtualization professional. I have a home lab that I have built up over the past few years with Supermicro server hardware. The Supermicro servers…
Automation

Brandon LeeJuly 8, 2020
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Ansible Windows Join Domain and Rejoin Playbooks

Automating Windows with Ansible modules is a great way to become more effective, productive, and efficient as a Windows administrator. Ansible provides a number of modules that can allow you to interact with your Windows machines either at the guest…
NSX-T

Brandon LeeJuly 6, 2020
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VMware vRealize Network Insight Install Guide

If you have a VMware NSX-powered softwared-defined networking infrastructure, you have an incredibly capable platform for delivering next generation networking for your environment. However, understanding how your traffic flows, having vsibiility to the ins and outs of your now “abstracted”…
NSX-T

Brandon LeeJuly 3, 2020
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VMware NSX Layer 7 Firewall Features

Since VMware NSX-T 2.4, VMware has introduced the ability with NSX to be able to pinpoint application identity, FQDN and URL whitelisting and provides the identity based firewall. All of these features of NSX-T since 2.4 take the platform to…
VMware

Brandon LeeJuly 1, 2020
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Backup Virtual Machines with Shared Multi-Writer Disks

There are several different use cases for using a multi-writer disk on a virtual machine. I have used these for a number of different reasons. You can take a look at my post here of how to provision a “poor…
Software Defined Storage

Brandon LeeJune 29, 2020
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Cluster Configuration Mistakes to Avoid

Any type of production infrastructure is generally designed in such a way so as to guarantee high-availability and resiliency. With most types of production systems, you never want to have all your “eggs in one basket” so to speak. You…