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.

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…
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…