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.

home lab

Brandon LeeFebruary 13, 2019
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VMware TestDrive added to VMUG Advantage Subscriptions

Every post that you read about VMUG Advantage from vExperts in the community is how great a value it really is. This is due to the fact that for the price that you pay for a year, you increasingly get…
NSX-T

Brandon LeeFebruary 12, 2019
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Configure NSX-T Manager Network from Command Line

Today I will be posting a quick tip that I hope may help others who have done the same thing that I did – buzz quickly through deploying an NSX-T Manager appliance without correctly setting DNS, NTP, or search order…
vSAN

Brandon LeeFebruary 11, 2019
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Troubleshooting vSAN Performance in Five Steps

Software-defined solutions such as software-defined networking and storage have revolutionized the world of virtualization. Abstracting these core areas of architecture away from the actual physical hardware allows robust features and agility that simply can’t be achieved with a hardware-only solution.…
VDI

Brandon LeeFebruary 8, 2019
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Manage Thin Clients and PCs Across Remote Sites with Praim Gateway

Virtualized desktop infrastructure or VDI brings many tremendous benefits to organizations looking to modernize end user computing. However, without the right tools to manage VDI environments, there can be challenges with doing this efficiently and effectively. This can be even…
Security

Brandon LeeFebruary 6, 2019
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Use PowerShell to Create Palo Alto EDL for Dynamic DNS Clients

One of the really cool things you can do with the Palo Alto firewall is create external dynamic lists which allow dynamically aggregating a number of different resource types to allow the Palo Alto firewall to dynamically act on the…
vRealize Suite

Brandon LeeFebruary 5, 2019
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VMware vROPs 7 Error Adapter Instance Configured to Trust Multiple Certificates

Recently in the home lab, in working with vROPs 7 (vRealize Operations Manager) I had attempted to reestablish a connection to vCenter Server since I had swapped out vCenter VCSA appliances in the environment. I knew I needed to reconnect…
VMware

Brandon LeeFebruary 4, 2019
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Run Basic Network Speed Bandwidth Throughput Test Between ESXi Hosts

Running tests before putting ESXi hosts into production is a very good idea as you can often flush out problems before hosts go into production which is much easier to remediate than after they are placed into production and you…
VMware

Brandon LeeFebruary 1, 2019
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Download VMware Software the Easy Way with LinuxVSM Appliance

If you have ever dealt with downloading software from VMware and the website, it can be a painful experience to find what you need, download the components, etc. Granted, I am not a UI guy and the experience is most…
NSX-T

Brandon LeeJanuary 30, 2019
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What is VMware NSX-T Manager Unified Appliance and Installation

Recently, I have been doing a lot of NSX labbing in the home lab environment, between NSX-V and starting to lab with NSX-T as well. NSX-T certainly seems to be the direction that VMware will be heading with the NSX…
NSX

Brandon LeeJanuary 29, 2019
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VMware ESXi Error No Space Left On Device Installing NSX-T Components

I have been getting NSX-T components up and running in the home lab as I have been wanting to get a feel for the installation and various components and differences with NSX-V. Recently, I ran into an issue when installing…