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.

vSphere 6.7

Brandon LeeDecember 30, 2019
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Upgrade vSphere 6.0 to 6.7 – vCenter Server VCSA

We just covered the topic of VMware 6.0 End of Life coming in March 12, 2020. If you are still running VMware vSphere 6 in your environment, now is the time to start thinking about your upgrade to vSphere 6.7.…
vSphere 6

Brandon LeeDecember 27, 2019
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VMware 6.0 End of Life Coming March 12, 2020

It seems like 2020 will be starting out as the year of “end of life” for many software solutions out in the field. Microsoft is cutting ties with Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 as well as SQL 2008 with…
Hyper-V

Brandon LeeDecember 26, 2019
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Hyper-V Failed to Change State Error Fix

If you have ran Hyper-V for any length of time, you know that encountering an issue that prevents you from starting your virtual machines is a “show stopper”. There is an error in particular that can prevent your Hyper-V VMs…
vSAN

Brandon LeeDecember 23, 2019
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Rebuild Failed vSAN ESXi Host

Just within the last couple of days, I had the USB device that one of my home lab ESXi servers was booting from become corrupt. I had noticed an issue the last time I had attempted to run VMware updates…
VMware PowerCLI

Brandon LeeDecember 20, 2019
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VMware PowerCLI Download and Install Connect to vCenter

If you are looking for THE way to automate VMware vSphere, VMware PowerCLI is the way to do it. PowerCLI is the defacto standard for interacting with VMware vSphere from an automation standpoint and is super easy to get installed…
Windows Admin Center

Brandon LeeDecember 19, 2019
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Migrate Windows Server 2008 R2 to 2019 with Storage Migration

With the January 14, 2020 deadline rapidly approaching, getting off Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 should be a priority. The End of Life designation will now mean no more security updates or official support from Microsoft. You can migrate…
NSX-T

Brandon LeeDecember 18, 2019
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NSX-T vs NSX-V Differences and Similarities

When it comes to network virtualization in the enterprise datacenter, there is no better solution on the market currently than VMware’s NSX network virtualization platform. VMware NSX has certainly changed over the past few years. One of the changes that…
Windows

Brandon LeeDecember 17, 2019
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Windows Server 2008 R2 End of Life Near

If you run Windows Server 2008 R2 in your environment as well Server 2008 flat, you are in the “5 minutes til midnight” hour of getting a plan together to migrate off your Windows Server 2008 platform. Just like Server…
Azure

Brandon LeeDecember 16, 2019
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Azure Hybrid Connection Configuration with Windows Admin Center

There is no question that you are most likely making use of the public cloud in some way, shape, or form these days. For most, there will be no full migration to public cloud environments, only migrations of selected services…
VMware

Brandon LeeDecember 13, 2019
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ESXi vs vSphere vs vCenter

For this post, we are getting back to the basics of VMware and comparing the core essential terms that are associated with a VMware environment. These are ESXi vs vSphere vs vCenter. How do these terms relate? How do each…