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.

SQL

Brandon LeeMarch 2, 2017
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SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Error Valid Database compatibility level

In updating a few SQL Server 2014 servers recently, I ran into an error with a new SQL Server 2014 Server running the upgrade to SQL Server 2016. It was a SQL Server 2016 upgrade error valid database compatibility level.…
SQL

Brandon LeeMarch 1, 2017
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How to Upgrade SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2016

With SQL Server 2016 currently at SP1 as well as a CU1 under its belt, many may be thinking of upgrading existing SQL Server 2014 installations to SQL Server 2016. The upgrade process is painless as you will see below.…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeFebruary 28, 2017
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Failed to prepare guest Veeam Guest Agent is not started

If you run into the error in Veeam “Failed to prepare guest Veeam Guest AGent is not started”, often there is an issue with the VMware Tools service. If VMware tools is in a bad state, when application aware is…
home lab

Brandon LeeFebruary 27, 2017
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How to Signup for VMUG Advantage EVALExperience

VMUG EVALExperience is a great way to have access to the core VMware vSphere technologies as well as licensing and many other benefits for a very reasonable price. If you are wanting to sharpen your VMware skills for certification or…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeFebruary 24, 2017
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Install Veeam 9.5 Backup and Replication Remote Console with PowerShell Snapin

Installing Veeam Backup & Replication Console remotely is a great way to have the Veeam Console tools available on an administrative workstation where one does not have to login to the Veeam server in order to check jobs, replication, etc.…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeFebruary 23, 2017
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Vembu BDR Suite 3.7 Quick Overview of New Features

Vembu Technologies recently released their flagship offering, Vembu BDR Suite v3.7 which provides many enhancements over the previous versions. Vembu BDR Suite v3.7 is an all encompassing product that allows you to cover the entire gamut of use cases in…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeFebruary 21, 2017
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VMware vSphere 6.5 Change vmkernel MTU size

When dealing with VMkernel ports in vSphere 6.5 for most use cases for performance, we want to enable jumbo frames on the vmkernel ports to allow for less fragmentation of the packets for iSCSI, vMotion, and so forth. Let’s take…
Powershell

Brandon LeeFebruary 17, 2017
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Automatically add corresponding Veeam backup copy and replication jobs with Powershell

I had written just a few days ago about a PowerShell script to compare Veeam copy or replication jobs to the regular backup jobs you have setup and see which ones are missing. This is useful if you have single…
VMware PowerCLI

Brandon LeeFebruary 16, 2017
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VMware PowerCLI quickly add multiple VM vmnics

PowerCLI is a powerful tool that can be utilized to quickly perform tasks in a VMware environment. One of the overly painful tasks that you encounter when configuring or reconfiguring a VM is adding vmnics. Especially is this painful if…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeFebruary 15, 2017
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Veeam Windows Agent Bare Metal Restore to VM

A few days ago I wrote a post about the Veeam Windows Agent Beta Install and Configuration which showed the installation and config of the new Beta 2 of the Windows agent. Let’s take a look at a common scenario…