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.

Horizon View

Brandon LeeSeptember 21, 2017
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VMware Horizon Toolbox Fling Installation

VMware Flings are a great resource to obtain tools to augment functionality or interaction with existing vSphere infrastructure. Often they are a preview of functionlity that will make it into future releases of the product that they extend. I wanted…
vSphere Integrated Containers

Brandon LeeSeptember 20, 2017
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VMware vSphere Integrated Containers 1.2 New Features

Recently, with VMware hosting its various VMWorld conferences, we heard about many exciting releases. One of the releases that is exciting around containers is the release of VMware Integrated Containers 1.2. VMware’s container product has been steadily maturing with features…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeSeptember 18, 2017
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Offsite Backup with Vembu BDR Suite CloudDR

Vembu BDR Suite provides a great all encompassing feature set for organizations looking to provide site resiliency as well as multiple copies of backup data stored in multiple locations. These days, most organizations if not already utilziing the public cloud…
NSX

Brandon LeeSeptember 14, 2017
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What is VMware AppDefense?

One of the exciting announcements that was made out of VMWorld was the release of AppDefense. This security product helps to bolster what VMware NSX can do from a security standpoint and augment those features and extend the capabilities and…
home lab

Brandon LeeSeptember 13, 2017
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Backup 3-2-1 Strategies for the Home Lab

Many of us are running home labs and have “critical” data or VMs that we simply do not want to lose. Would we want to lose any of this data or virtual infrastructure? Each person/home lab is different and may…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeSeptember 11, 2017
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Managing Datastore Files in VMware vSphere 6.5

One of the basic, daily administration tasks for any VMware administrator is managing files in the vSphere environment. With the move to vSphere 6.5, how are file management tasks affected versus previous versions of vSphere? What about during the cohabitation…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeSeptember 8, 2017
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Reinstall VMware Tools in VMware VCSA Appliance

Recently, in working with an upgrade from VCSA 6 appliance to VCSA 6.5, I ran into a particular issue having to do with the VCSA 6 appliance not running VMware tools. In the environment, VMware tools had been inadvertently uninstalled…
Hyper-V

Brandon LeeSeptember 5, 2017
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Differences between Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces Direct

“Software Defined” is all the rage these days with vendors looking at ways to abstract core functionality and features away from the underlying hardware. Software defined storage is an especially hot topic. Microsoft has a couple of technologies out there…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeSeptember 4, 2017
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VMware VCSA 6.5 Photon OS configuration and commands

As we covered in what is Photon OS, it is a cloud operating system built from the ground up for cloud and containers. VMware is using Photon OS in most of the new appliance releases or updates. The new VCSA…
VDI

Brandon LeeAugust 31, 2017
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Automate configuration of Thin and Zero Client with Praim ThinMan

When thinking about automating the provisioning of thin clients as well as Windows PCs, a large part of the automation on the front end that we would want to be able to accomplish is automating configuration. We have already looked…