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.

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…
Windows 10

Brandon LeeJune 29, 2020
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Windows 10 v2004 recover deleted files with Windows File Recovery App

Have you ever deleted a file that you did not mean to delete? Are you like me and often use the SHIFT+DEL function to bypass deleting to the recycle bin? Without restoring from a backup or going back to restore…
Windows Server 2019

Brandon LeeJune 26, 2020
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Windows Server 2019 Remote Desktop Services without Domain

What if you have a need for running Windows Server 2019 as a remote desktop services server but you are not running a domain? If your Windows Server 2019 server is in a workgroup in an edge environment possibly and…
vSphere 7

Brandon LeeJune 25, 2020
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What is VMware vSphere 7 Assignable Hardware?

VMware has introduced some serious innovation with VMware vSphere 7 across the board. One of the new features that I think is extremely powerful that isn’t getting the same attention as some of the other fetaures is the new VMware…
vSphere 7

Brandon LeeJune 24, 2020
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Apply New ESXi 7.0 updates with vSphere Lifecycle Manager vLCM

If you are like me you have been waiting for updates to be released for ESXi 7 so you could try out the vSphere Lifecycle Manager vLCM tool to apply those updates to your ESXi 7 vSphere cluster. The new…
Security

Brandon LeeJune 24, 2020
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Easy Windows Server Just In Time Administration JIT

One of the core pillars of good security with Windows Server is role-based access and least privilege access to resources in your environment. One of the newer buzzwords with security related to your Windows Server environment is called Just in…
vSphere 7

Brandon LeeJune 22, 2020
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What is vSphere Lifecycle Manager vLCM?

You may have noticed that one of the major new features with the VMware vSphere 7 release was the vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM). It is a great new tool that provides a new declarative model in keeping your hosts in…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeJune 19, 2020
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NAKIVO Backup and Replication v10 Beta Released New Features

NAKIVO is back at it again with a new beta release available for download. I am not sure how they have remained so productive during a global pandemic, but they have. They keep turning out new releases and great new…