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.
  • AzureWhat-is-Azure-Arc-Management-and-Governance

    What is Azure Arc Management and Governance?

    One of the major announcements coming from Microsoft’s Ignite conference was the introduction of Azure Arc. This announcement is especially interesting to those that are looking to consolidate management, governance, and security of their Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes workloads across…

  • AzureAzure-VM-Security-Best-Practices

    Azure VM Security Best Practices

    As you migrate your workloads to a Microsoft IaaS environment, you will want to give due attention to your security posture in Microsoft Azure. There are many considerations you will want to make when looking at your Azure VM security…

  • VMwareESXi-6.7-Free-Limitations-and-Features

    ESXi 6.7 Free Limitations and Features

    One of the great options provide by VMware with the ESXi hypervisor today is the ability to download a free version of ESXi. There are many great things this allows you to do as a customer, an individual, a business,…

  • CloudBackup-OneDrive-for-Business-with-Vembu

    Backup OneDrive for Business with Vembu v2.0

    As more and more businesses migrate their data to the cloud and cloud Software-as-a-Service solutions, cloud backups are becoming increasingly important. In fact, as soon as your data lands in the cloud environment, you need to have a means to…

  • SecurityHypervisor-Security-Best-Practices

    Hypervisor Security Best Practices

    When it comes to today’s modern infrastructures, most if not all are running some type of hypervisor powered virtual environment in some part of their organization. Virtualization has opened many possibilities for new features and capabilities when it comes to…

  • AzureAzure-Stack-HCI-Deployment-with-New-Cluster-Creation-Extension

    Azure Stack HCI Deployment with New Cluster Creation Extension

    Microsoft is certainly serious about Windows Admin Center. With Windows Admin Center 1910, there have been many great new features introduced as part of the newest version of the WAC tool. Part of what Microsoft is trying to achieve with…

  • Hyper-VHyper-V-Roadmap-of-New-Features

    Hyper-V Roadmap of Upcoming Features

    If you are like me and just getting to digest some of the content from the recent Microsoft Ignite conference, there are several sessions that caught my attention. One of the sessions detailed what’s next with Hyper-V. In that session,…

  • StorageStarWind-VSAN-for-vSphere-Virtual-Appliances

    StarWind VSAN for vSphere Virtual Appliances

    You may have been considering VMware vSAN for your ROBO or Edge environment, however, your budget constraints simply do not allow purchasing a supported configuration for use with a VMware vSAN solution.ย  The reality is that if you donโ€™t have…

  • vRealize SuiteUpgrade-to-VMware-vRealize-Operations-Manager-vROPs-8.0

    Upgrade to VMware vRealize Operations Manager vROPs 8.0

    One of the tasks I have been wanting to get done in the home lab as a test bed for other projects is upgrade to VMware vRealize Operations Manager vROPs 8.0. The vROPs 8.0 release represents the latest and greatest…

  • Windows 10Windows-10-1909-Download-Released-New-Features

    Windows 10 1909 Download Released New Features

    Well, apparently the wait is over for Windows 10 version 1909 aka 19H2 as it appears it has been released and starting to roll out for those looking to upgrade to the latest and greatest on the slow ring. In…