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.

Backup Software

Brandon LeeJanuary 10, 2019
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Automate Network Changes in DR for Replicated VMs with NAKIVO

There is certainly more to disaster recovery than simply backing up your data. Backups are the integral part of ensuring your data is safe. However, backups are only a small portion of an overall disaster recovery strategy. Thinking about disaster…
NSX

Brandon LeeJanuary 8, 2019
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VMware NSX Layer 2 Bridge Configuration

I have been playing around a lot with NSX in the home lab lately and decided to revisit the NSX Layer 2 Bridge functionality especially since now much of the configuration can be done in the HTML 5 interface. The…
NSX

Brandon LeeJanuary 7, 2019
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Failed to add a vSphere Distributed Switch VMkernel adapter on ESXi Host

In working with a distributed switch configuration applied to a 3-node nested vSAN cluster in the home lab, I had an issue with the initial installation of a particular vSphere Distributed Switch VMkernel adapter on a particular ESXi host that…
NSX

Brandon LeeJanuary 4, 2019
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Create VMware vSphere Distributed Switch VDS for NSX Data Center

In deploying a VMware NSX environment, one of the first things that you will want to do is create vSphere Distributed Switches for the hosts in the environment to use with NSX. In fact, the NSX vSwitch is based on…
Cloud Software

Brandon LeeJanuary 3, 2019
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Office 2019 vs Office 365 Differences and Installation

There is no doubt that today’s software companies are moving to a “software-as-a-service” model instead of a perpetual licensing model for locally installed software. Microsoft is now delivering their Office line of products via the Office 365 subscription model. In…
Horizon View

Brandon LeeJanuary 2, 2019
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Connect VMware Horizon 7.7 Connection Server to vCenter Server

As we have already covered, configuring the Horizon Connection Server and the Horizon Composer server (if using Linked Clones) are two of the first essential steps in configuring a VMware Horizon environment. However, getting the Connection Server connected to your…
NSX

Brandon LeeDecember 31, 2018
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Upgrading NSX Data Center for vSphere Manager to 6.4.4

Recently, I have been working on the home lab and getting various components upgraded to the latest and greatest. In working on a nested VMware vSphere vSAN 6.7 Update lab for VMware Horizon 7.7, I decided also to get NSX…
Horizon View

Brandon LeeDecember 28, 2018
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VMware Horizon 7.7 Composer Server Installation

The VMware Horizon infrastructure is made up of various pieces and moving parts to bring together the Horizon infrastructure. VMware Horizon allows making use of various types of cloning technologies and desktop pool management techniques. While using instant clone technology…
Horizon View

Brandon LeeDecember 27, 2018
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VMware Horizon 7.7 Connection Server Installation

Recently, VMware released the latest and greatest in Horizon technology with the release of VMware Horizon 7.7. I decided to get the homelab VDI component of the lab up to date with this version of Horizon, especially now that Horizon…
Computers

Brandon LeeDecember 26, 2018
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Create a VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 Nested ESXi Lab

For those who may not be running VMware vSAN in a home lab using physical hosts, or who are running VMware vSAN on physical hosts for “production” but who want a separate “learning” or “play around” environment for VMware vSAN,…