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 PowerCLI

Brandon LeeMay 19, 2017
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Configure VMware vSphere Cluster with Web Client or PowerCLI

As powerful as VMware ESXi is out of the box in a standalone single server format, we really don’t get all the benefits of running a hypervisor in a single server standalone configuration. The real power with VMware vSphere comes…
Powershell

Brandon LeeMay 17, 2017
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Veeam Powershell Automatically Add Backup Jobs

One of the great things with Veeam Backup & Replication is the integration with PowerShell and the ability to automate many of the job options using PowerShell. This is extremely handy when it comes to mass creating Veeam jobs in…
Windows Server 2016

Brandon LeeMay 16, 2017
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Install and Configure Windows Server 2016 WSUS

Windows Server Update Services or WSUS is a Microsoft product that allows us to centrally manage patches for Microsoft operating systems and other Microsoft products. With Windows Server 2016, the process is basically the same as previous server operating systems…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeMay 15, 2017
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Secure Backup Data in flight and at rest with Nakivo

Protecting our data in today’s security conscious world is imperative for all infrastructure systems. However, an area that often gets overlooked when thinking about protecting sensitive data is our backups. When you think about backups, they contain a copy of…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeMay 12, 2017
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Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 2 released new features

Today there was anticipated news from Veeam with the release of Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 update 2. It has been in the wild already, however, this is the official release to the general audience. This release includes hundreds of…
Automation

Brandon LeeMay 11, 2017
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Best Rest API Client Download

These days APIs are all the rage when it comes to interacting with devices, infrastructure, software, etc. Most vendors and software are providing APIs that allow you to interact, configure, and query software and hardware. This is powerful when it…
NSX

Brandon LeeMay 10, 2017
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Add VMware NSX Identity Source Domain

VMware NSX is a powerful tool to not only abstract your virtual networking from the underlying physical infrastructure, but also secure your environment. As we had shown in the previous post, we can easily create firewall rules to restrict access…
NSX

Brandon LeeMay 8, 2017
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Secure Home Lab DMZ network with VMware NSX firewall

With the recent announcement from VMUG that Advantage subscribers now have access to VMware NSX, it opens up a lot of possibilities for the VMware home lab environments out there. VMware NSX has a ton of network security benefits that…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeMay 4, 2017
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Nakivo announces QNAP NAS based VM Backup appliances

Nakivo continues to innovate with its products and offerings to extend backup solutions to a wide range of environments and hardware. I personally have had the opportunity to work with Nakivo in a wide range of settings and they are…
Networking

Brandon LeeMay 3, 2017
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GNS3 2.0 released new features

For those networking geeks out there like myself, no doubt you have used and continue to utilize GNS3 as a tool for mock ups, learning, and just about anything else you can think of. GNS3 today has some major news…