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.

Computers

Brandon LeeJune 7, 2024
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Install Nutanix Community Edition on a Mini PC

With so many enterprise organizations switching from VMware over to Nutanix due to the 10-15x price increase brought about by Broadcom, it is a great idea to start learning Nutanix skills if you don’t have any experience with Nutanix so…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeJune 6, 2024
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Top 3 Technologies You Need to Learn NOW

In thinking about the state of infrastructure in 2024, there have been so many changes in the technology landscape. The finalizing of the Broadcom purchase of VMware has ushered in a new era of uncertainty and many organizations are looking…
VMware

Brandon LeeJune 5, 2024
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Enhanced vMotion Compatibility VM Migration in VMware Environments

VMware has one of the coolest technologies in something called Enhanced vMotion Compatibility. It helps ensure that you can migrate virtual machines across different hosts with differen CPU generation configurations. With the enhanced vMotion compatibility feature, organizations can keep their…
Mini PC & Server

Brandon LeeJune 4, 2024
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Does the Minisforum MS-01 support bifurcation with the PCI-e slot?

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it does in the BIOS. There is no option to set bifurcation on the slot. It seems there is only the option to enable or disable the slot. Let’s take a look at what was…
Networking

Brandon LeeJune 3, 2024
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pfSense Virtual Machine as a Network Firewall

The pfSense network firewall solution is a great free and open-source firewall that many run in their home labs or even SMB environments. PfSense has many enterprise features, and the community edition is free to download and install. Running a…
Raspberry Pi

Brandon LeeMay 31, 2024
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Top 20 Best OS for Raspberry Pi in 2024

Let’s look at choosing the best OS for Raspberry Pi as many options are available to download outside of the Raspberry Pi OS for your Raspberry Pi boards (Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 5, etc). We will consider 20 different…
Proxmox

Brandon LeeMay 30, 2024
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Install Proxmox in VMware Workstation Pro

With the recent news about VMware Workstation Pro being free for personal use, it opens up a lot of doors for using the software as a home lab platform and to play around with various hypervisors, etc. Installing Proxmox in…
Mini PC & Server

Brandon LeeMay 28, 2024
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Minisforum NAB6 Mini PC as a Home Lab Server

Recently, I received a sample unit of the Minisforum NAB6 mini PC from Minisforum. This is a very capable mini PC in its own right. However, I wanted to put it through the paces and let you guys know what…
VMware

Brandon LeeMay 24, 2024
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VMware Monitoring for Free with Telegraf InfluxDB and Grafana

There are a lot of expensive VMware vSphere monitoring tools out there from enterprise vendors that work really well and have a lot of bells and whistles to monitor VMware ESXi hosts, virtual machines, vCenter Server, and vSphere monitoring in…
Monitoring

Brandon LeeMay 23, 2024
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TICK Stack with Docker Compose Example

In thinking through my monitoring needs and a few projects I have coming up in mind, I wanted to spin up a fresh monitoring stack using the “Tick” stack. Let’s look at the Tick Stack with Docker Compose example and…