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.

VMware

Brandon LeeNovember 9, 2017
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Accidentally delete VMware datastore files for a running VM?

In case you are curious or may have run into this question before as you are browing around in the datastore browser – Can you accidentally delete VMware datastore files for a running VM? Most may think, since the virtual…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeNovember 8, 2017
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VMware Backup Best Practices Checklist

When performing backups of VMware virtual machines, it is best to make sure that backup procedures follow best practices. It is often helpful to have a checklist of sorts when thinking about designing your data protection plan to make sure…
Hyper-V

Brandon LeeNovember 7, 2017
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Use Snapshots in Production with Hyper-V Production Checkpoints

For most virtualization admins who have spent any time in the trenches with administering virtual environments, snapshots are just a bad thing for most use cases, especially production workloads. We have all most likely been in situations where snapshots caused…
VDI

Brandon LeeNovember 6, 2017
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Picking the right VDI Solution Management Software

Successfully deploying and managing virtual desktop infrastructure or VDI can depend on picking the right VDI Solution management software. Whether it relates to repurposing old PCs as VDI clients or managing thin clients, organizations need a management solution that can…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeNovember 3, 2017
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NAKIVO Backup and Replication 7.3 Beta Released

NAKIVO is certainly blazing a trail of very quick release iterations and adding new features at a rapid pace. NAKIVO just announced the release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication 7.3 Beta. I really like NAKIVO’s beta programs as it gives…
SQL

Brandon LeeNovember 2, 2017
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Install SQL Server 2017 on Ubuntu Server

Microsoft has certainly been headed in a very cool direction in the past couple of years and have definitely embraced the Linux community and interoperability between Microsoft Windows and Linux. When we look at the strides that have been made…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeNovember 1, 2017
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Manage Dell RAID in VMware ESXi 6.5 with PERCCLI

We have covered the Avago/LSI StorCLI in past posts and how extremely useful it can be loaded on ESXi servers that have DAS volumes being presented with an Avago/LSI RAID controller. The advantage of loading/using the Avago/LSI StorCLI utility is…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeOctober 31, 2017
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What is VMware vRealize Log Insight for vCenter Server

Let’s face it, syslog collection is not as exciting as other things we would like to be doing as administrators, but often it is a necessary evil that we have to face when troubleshooting or trying to identify potential problems…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeOctober 27, 2017
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Using VMware VM Storage Policies

VMware Virtual Machine Storage Policies fall under the realm of Storage Policy Based Management that assists with virtual machine provisioning. When defined, Storage Based Policies define which type(s) of storage are presented for the virtual machine and how the virtual…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeOctober 25, 2017
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Create Secure FTPS server for VMware VCSA 6.5 Backups

We have covered in detail how to in general provision an FTP server using FileZilla for the purposes of targeting for our VCSA 6.5 backups. However, to take this a step further, what if you want to secure the backup…