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.

vSAN

Brandon LeeAugust 21, 2019
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Replacing VMware vSAN Two-Node Witness Host Checklist

One of the things I love about VMware vSAN is the ease of which you can do things operationally and the resiliency and robustness of the platform to have changes in the infrastructure and still keep running your workloads. The…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeAugust 21, 2019
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VMware vSphere Backup Best Practices

There is no question that backing up your VMware vSphere virtual machines is an absolute necessity. If you aren’t backing up your vSphere environment, you are asking for trouble. However, even, if you are backing up your environment, there are…
Powershell

Brandon LeeAugust 20, 2019
2 16,274

Easy Fix for DCOM Permissions Errors with PowerShell

There is no doubt that in working with various applications, you have ran into issues with Distributed COM or DCOM as it is more commonly known. DCOM can be a bear to troubleshoot and resolve issues with in an environement…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeAugust 19, 2019
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Protect Business-Critical VMs with Effective Backups

Today, your data is more important than ever. Most businesses, no doubt including your own, are making use of data in ways that were not used just a few years ago. Many organizations are more “online” than ever before. Data…
Security

Brandon LeeAugust 16, 2019
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Automated Patching of Microsoft Wormable RDP Vulnerabilities

Patching is a huge part of managing IT infrastructure. It can consume a large part of IT operation’s time and energy. However, this is one area where automation and automated processes can really shine when it comes to keeping patches…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeAugust 15, 2019
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Easily P2V Physical Windows Servers to VMs with NAKIVO

There are still businesses out there running physical workloads in their enterprise datacenters. This can be for various reasons. It could be due to some requirement for a phsyical server to plug some sort of interface into or some physical…
vSAN

Brandon LeeAugust 14, 2019
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VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 3 New Features

With the release of VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3, one of the exciting upgrades that come with the new vSphere release is an updated version of vSAN. VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 3 brings great new features to the table that…
VMware

Brandon LeeAugust 13, 2019
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3 Announced New Features

In case you haven’t heard today, the next version of VMware vSphere has been announced! VMware officially announced VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3 today with new and exciting enhancements to the already powerful platform. This is going to be a…
Computers

Brandon LeeAugust 12, 2019
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Keep Track of IP Addresses Automatically with GestioIP

I have been testing different IPAMs for use in the home lab as of late and seeing what I like about them and what I don’t. I am doing this to try to settle on the best IPAM solution for…
Networking

Brandon LeeAugust 9, 2019
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Free IPAM Open Source Netbox IP Scanner

I have been looking recently for a better way to manage my IP Addresses in the home lab. With multiple VLANs and constant churn in the home lab, it becomes difficult to manage IP addresses effectively and keep up with…