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.

Apps

Brandon LeeApril 26, 2019
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PRTG Desktop Released Best Network Monitoring Tools for Windows

Monitoring is one of those things that no one enjoys doing and usually it gets neglected. However, this is general because the right tools are not used. When something is difficult and unfruitful, we tend to shy away from doing…
Nutanix

Brandon LeeApril 25, 2019
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Guest VM Running in Nested Nutanix CE on VMware vSphere Won’t Boot

I have been playing around quite a bit lately in the home lab with a nested installation of Nutanix Community Edition (CE) as it is a great way to get your feet wet with the Nutanix hypervisor for free and…
vRealize Suite

Brandon LeeApril 23, 2019
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Upgrade to VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.5

VMware has tremendously overhauled the VMware vRealize suite of products over the past few releases. VMware vRealize Operations has come a long way in its journey to version 7.5 with many added features and benefits and a new focus on…
VDI

Brandon LeeApril 22, 2019
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Low Cost Thin Client PCs with ThinOX4PC version 11

Often one of the deterrents for organizations to undertake a VDI initiative is the costs involved. While VDI can provide tremendous benefits for many organizations looking to simplify, scale, and operationalize end user clients, the costs of retooling can be…
vSphere 6.7

Brandon LeeApril 18, 2019
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New VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2 Client Developer Center API Explorer and Code Capture

In today’s fast-paced environments, automation is king of the hill. In fact in most operations environments in many businesses, it is simply not possible to do things the way they used to be done. Many if not most of today’s…
vSphere 6.7

Brandon LeeApril 17, 2019
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Upgrade to VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7 Update 2 with Command Line

One of the great things about ESXi from a lifecycle management and update perspective is you have multiple ways to do things. As administrators, we want to have options for various scenarios. As posted in the previous post covering the…
vSphere 6.7

Brandon LeeApril 16, 2019
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Upgrade VMware vSphere ESXi to 6.7 Update 2 with VUM New Features

Well, the upgrades are beginning in the home lab for getting everything up to vSphere 6.7 Update 2. There are many ways to update ESXi to the latest version and I have to say VMware has made this process rock…
vSphere 6.7

Brandon LeeApril 15, 2019
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Upgrade to VMware vSphere vCenter VCSA 6.7 Update 2 with VAMI

Well, after the announcement of VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2, the bits are finally GA! VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2 is a great step forward for the platform. VMware continues to evolve the platform to be more and more powerful…
Automation

Brandon LeeApril 12, 2019
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Use Ansible to Update OUI tables in Arpwatch

As most of you are aware, I have written a few posts about Arpwatch and the great value it provides in a network for visibility. It can help to uncover not only network issues that may exist, but also potential…
Nutanix

Brandon LeeApril 11, 2019
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Install Nested Nutanix CE in VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7 Update 1

One of the great things about virtualization is “nested virtualization“. This is where you can run a hypervisor inside a virtual machine running on another hypervisor. One of the really cool things with the lab environment is playing around with…