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Author: 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.
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VMware Site Recovery Manager SRM added to VMUG Advantage

I am all about learning products and technologies. Technologists however need access to products to become proficient in using them. I have covered the VMUG program in many previous blog…

by Brandon LeeJuly 20, 2018January 11, 2021
Hyper-V Cluster High Availability Features Design and Backups
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Hyper-V Cluster High Availability Features Design and Backups

One of the key benefits of modern virtual environments powered by today’s hypervisors is high availability. Virtualization has allowed for a powerful abstraction from the underlying physical hardware that allows…

by Brandon LeeJuly 19, 2018January 11, 2021
Throttle Network Backup Traffic with NAKIVO Bandwidth Throttling
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Throttle Network Backup Traffic with NAKIVO Bandwidth Throttling

Network bandwidth is one of the more expensive aspects of today’s enterprise datacenter.  Especially is that the case when talking about WAN bandwidth.  WAN links are still relatively expensive, even…

by Brandon LeeJuly 18, 2018January 11, 2021
Monitor Network Traffic with Port Mirror and TAP Port with Palo Alto
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Monitor Network Traffic with Port Mirror and TAP Port with Palo Alto

Recently, I added a cool piece of networking gear to the home lab environment – a Palo Alo PA-220 next generation firewall. I have always been a fan of Palo…

by Brandon LeeJuly 17, 2018January 11, 2021
Troubleshooting Windows Access Denied Errors
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Troubleshooting Windows Access Denied Errors

Windows administrators can spend a massive amount of time poring over logs and investigating error messages.  Trying to figure out why Windows is throwing certain errors can be frustrating and…

by Brandon LeeJuly 16, 2018January 11, 2021
Windows Server 2019 Preview 17709 with New Hyper-V Released
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Windows Server 2019 Preview 17709 with New Hyper-V Released

For those that have been following the Windows Insider Preview Builds, Windows Server 2019 Preview 17709 has been released as of a couple of days ago. Additionally, this is the…

by Brandon LeeJuly 12, 2018November 29, 2023
Opvizor Performance Analyzer New vSAN 6.7 Performance Analysis
vSAN

Opvizor Performance Analyzer New vSAN 6.7 Performance Analysis

VMware vSAN 6.7 has incredible performance improvements, especially over legacy versions of vSAN. For a VMware administrator, especially with larger environments, keeping a handle on potential performance bottlenecks and other…

by Brandon LeeJuly 10, 2018January 11, 2021
Replace or Change VMware vSAN Witness Host with vSphere 6.7 Appliance
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Replace or Change VMware vSAN Witness Host with vSphere 6.7 Appliance

VMware vSan is getting more and more powerful with each and every release. With the introduction of vSphere 6.7 and vSAN 6.7, the HTML5 UI has received more functionality, Windows…

by Brandon LeeJuly 9, 2018January 11, 2021
VMware vSphere 6.7 New Performance Improvements
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VMware vSphere 6.7 New Performance Improvements

VMware vSphere 6.7 has certainly been an exciting release.  It seems like however, that all VMware releases and announcements are full of new goodies and plenty of things to nerd…

by Brandon LeeJuly 6, 2018January 11, 2021
Monitoring VMware vSAN with vSAN Observer
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Monitoring VMware vSAN with vSAN Observer

VMware vSAN is certainly the market leader in software defined storage solutions.  VMware vSAN, especially in the new VMware vSAN 6.7 release is a powerful platform that allows organizations to…

by Brandon LeeJuly 5, 2018January 11, 2021

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