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 LeeMarch 5, 2018
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Configuring Veeam Virtual Appliance Mode for VMware vSAN

When backing up VMware vSAN, data protection solutions can still take advantage of VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection as they do backing up virtual machines from any type of VMware storage as it is storage agnostic. There are…
home lab

Brandon LeeMarch 2, 2018
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Asus XG-C100C 10G NIC Windows Server 2016 VLANs Jumbo Frames

Moving to 10 gig in the home lab environment, can potentially be an expensive undertaking. Ten gig hasn’t really come down as dramatically as all of us would have hoped, but things are getting better. If you are looking for…
VMware

Brandon LeeMarch 1, 2018
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Opvizor VMware Performance Analyzer 4.8.0 Released New Features

Monitoring performance and health in a VMware vSphere environment is a critical task for vSphere administrators. Especially in larger environments, it can be a real challenge to keep a handle on overall vSphere environment health. Then there are other concerns…
Web

Brandon LeeFebruary 28, 2018
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Easy Way to Replace or Install Apache Tomcat SSL Certificate

In working with a client recently, I was tasked with replacing an SSL certificate in Apache Tomcat, specifically for a JIRA install. If you have ever done this before, you know that it can be a royal PITA as there…
VMware Monitoring

Brandon LeeFebruary 26, 2018
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ControlUp VMware Performance and Health Monitoring

Quickly and easily finding issues within an environment, especially virtualized environments can be a challenge. Having the right utilities and tools can be extremely helpful in finding potential hotspots and having visibility to important KPIs within the environment. Today I…
Cloud Software

Brandon LeeFebruary 23, 2018
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How to Choose the Best CASB

With the tremendous cybersecurity threats present in the world today, organizations are certainly focusing their attention on how IT resources and their data can be protected. This is especially true with organizations who have resources that are located in the…
vVOLs

Brandon LeeFebruary 21, 2018
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VMware VVol Testing with Dell EMC Unity VSA

Recently, I saw a post from Eric Siebert that got me to thinking again about VVols. Eric gives a good explanantion of why we haven’t seen this technology take off more than we have over the past couple of years.…
VMware

Brandon LeeFebruary 20, 2018
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Runecast Analyzer 1.7 vSAN Support Visualization Improvements and New Web Plugins

When it comes to supporting, maintaining, and operationalizing a VMware vSphere environment, everything needs to be carried out in accordance with best practices. VMware is the expert of their own product for obvious reasons and following what they document as…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeFebruary 19, 2018
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VMware Backup with Vembu BDR Suite v3.9 Virtual Appliance

Deploying VMware solutions via virtual appliances is a great way to quickly get up and running with a preconfigured environment from vendors. To coincide with the recent release of Vembu BDR Suite v3.9, Vembu has released preconfigured virtual appliances. This…
home lab

Brandon LeeFebruary 16, 2018
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Automate Documenting Used IP Addresses on my Network

When you are running quite a few VMs in your home lab environment, it can get tricky to keep up with the IP address that are in use and which virtual machines you have running on which IPs. While most…