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 LeeMarch 4, 2019
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NSX-T 2.4 Compute Manager is Already Registered with Other NSX Manager Error

In working in the lab with the new release of NSX Data Center 2.4 for the past few days, I have ran into a few little issues that are worth posting and sharing with others. Some of these are ones…
NSX-T

Brandon LeeMarch 1, 2019
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Install VMware NSX-T 2.4 Manager Controller Combined Appliance

The VMware community has been abuzz over the past couple or three days at the time of this writing with the release of VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4. This is a huge release that has everyone talking about the new…
NSX-T

Brandon LeeFebruary 27, 2019
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VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4 Released New Features

There is much excitement in the world of software-defined networking. VMware’s NSX product has gained tremendous momentum over the past couple of years especially and there is a lot of work and development that has been going into extending the…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeFebruary 27, 2019
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Vembu BDR Suite 4.0 Product Review

There is certainly a crowded market when it comes to data protection in the enterprise datacenter space. Many vendors are competing for customers who are looking to backup their business-critical workloads residing in various platforms and environments. These primarily include…
Windows Server 2019

Brandon LeeFebruary 25, 2019
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Upgrade Windows Server 2019 Evaluation to Full Version Standard to Datacenter

Recently, I ran into an issue playing around with Storage Spaces Direct where I had inadvertently cloned over a Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition template. Storage Spaces Direct is feature that requires running Windows Server 2019 Datacenter. I had invested…
vSphere 6.7

Brandon LeeFebruary 22, 2019
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VMware vSphere VCSA 6.5 to VCSA 6.7 Postgres Upgrade Error Fix

A couple of days ago in a production environment, I ran into an issue upgrading an existing VCSA 6.5 appliance to a VCSA 6.7 appliance. Stage 1 of the upgrade process with the appliance deployment was going fine, however, with…
Windows Server 2019

Brandon LeeFebruary 20, 2019
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Windows Server 2019 GA Storage Spaces Direct Non-WSSD Certified Registry Key

For those that are labbing with Windows Server 2019 RTM version Storage Spaces Direct, you may quickly find that if you try to provision a lab version of Storage Spaces Direct using the “re-released” GA bits of the OS, you…
Computers

Brandon LeeFebruary 19, 2019
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VMware vSphere Web client Adobe Flash Prompt Greyed Out Blank Chrome Issue Fix

Thanks to VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1, the “Flex” client or Adobe Flash client is quickly going by the wayside. However, if you support environments that are yet up and running on vSphere 6.7 U1 which is likely still quite…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeFebruary 18, 2019
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How To Implement Policy Driven Data Protection with NAKIVO

Today’s IT operations across the board are having to adopt new methods of automating various workflows as there is simply no way to keep up in today’s fast-paced environments with manual operations anymore. Automation is the key to being able…
Security

Brandon LeeFebruary 16, 2019
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Create DNS Sinkhole to Block Malware Domains with PAN-OS 9.0

This week Palo Alto released PAN-OS 9.0. There are over 60 new capabilities in this release of the new firmware and many great new features. There is a new security functionality introduced as part of PAN-OS 9.0 that is an…