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.

Powershell

Brandon LeeFebruary 14, 2017
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Mirror Hard drives without using RAID

When we think of traditional hard drive mirrors with RAID technology, we are usually talking about a RAID controller either software or hardware based that is performing parity operations on two hard drives and present the two hard drives as…
Hyper-V

Brandon LeeFebruary 10, 2017
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Setup Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V VM Replication

Setting up Hyper-V replication allows you to replicate a virtual machine from one Hyper-V environment over to another. The nice things about replication in the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor world is that there is no appliance to have to setup or…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeFebruary 8, 2017
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Compare Veeam Backup Copy and Replication Jobs Configured

If you use Veeam Backup and Replication to perform backup, copy, as well as replication jobs, how do you see the differences between the jobs setup? In other words, do you have copy and replication jobs setup for servers where…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeFebruary 7, 2017
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Vembu BDR Suite Protecting Virtual and Physical Servers

One of the great things about Vembu BDR Suite is the ability to cover all conceivable areas of your IT infrastructure with one product. This includes many different flavors of hypervisors, Office 365 and Google Apps as well as Microsoft…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeFebruary 3, 2017
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Nakivo Backup and Replication V7 Beta Released

The much anticipated news from Nakivo – Nakivo Backup and Replication V7 Beta Released – includes Hyper-V support as well as official VMware vsphere 6.5 support. There are many great features in this release of Nakivo Backup & Replication including the…
Windows Server 2016

Brandon LeeFebruary 2, 2017
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Install Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Nano Server in VMware ESXi

One of the exciting features of Windows Server 2016 is Nano Server which is basically a headless operating system that really does strip out just about everything but the necessary components to run a server operating system. There is of…
Windows Server 2016

Brandon LeeJanuary 31, 2017
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Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Server Core Uninstall Programs

If you are working with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Server Core and need to uninstall programs, there is no GUI or built in menu to do this with the sconfig utility. However using a remote registry connection and looking at the…
vSphere 6.5

Brandon LeeJanuary 30, 2017
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VMware VCSA 6.5 error code 42500 joining Active Directory domain

Many VMware administrators by now are most likely looking at moving to vSphere 6.5. In doing so, moving to VCSA 6.5 appliance is the first step towards that goal, besides proper planning of course. Part of any vCenter configuration is…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeJanuary 27, 2017
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Veeam Windows Agent Beta Install and Configuration

I received notice in the past couple of days of the availability for testing the latest Beta of the Veeam Windows agent. The Veeam Windows agent is the replacement for the Veeam Endpoint backup solution that many have used on…
Windows Server 2016

Brandon LeeJanuary 26, 2017
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Windows Server 2016 Server Core the machine is already joined to the domain

In working a lot recently with Windows Server 2016 Core in a lab environment, I ran into an issue after rolling back a snapshot on a Hyper-V Server Core install. The snapshot rollback of course broke the computer account/domain relationship…