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.

Windows Server 2016

Brandon LeeJanuary 17, 2017
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Windows Server 2016 DNS Policy Deny Subnet Access to Zone

In the previous post, Controlling Home Lab DNS Resolution with Windows Server 2016, we looked briefly at the benefits of running Windows Server 2016 DNS server in a home lab environment and why you would want to do that. Looking a…
home lab

Brandon LeeJanuary 16, 2017
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Controlling Home Lab DNS Resolution with Windows Server 2016

Let’s face it, DNS is critical everywhere. Even in our home labs, DNS plays a major role in many services we may want or need to run as it does in production. At first, many in home labs may tend…
Networking

Brandon LeeJanuary 13, 2017
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Use Meraki MX Security Appliance to throttle bandwidth

As I detailed in a previous post, I was able to get my hands on a Meraki security appliance for home lab use. I am still liking the performance and cloud integrated features of the Meraki platform and the ease…
Computers

Brandon LeeJanuary 12, 2017
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Nakivo Backup and Replication V7 Announced Adds Hyper-V Support

Nakivo Backup and Replication V7 Announced Adds Hyper-V Support – Nakivo who is known for rock solid and cutting edge VMware and Amazon EC2 backups has extended their offering to include Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform. The Hyper-V backup capabilities use…
Hyper-V

Brandon LeeJanuary 11, 2017
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Add Local Storage in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

One of the tasks you may need to accomplish when working with a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V host is adding local storage to the host. Often, VMs will be housed on a volume that is separate from the operating system…
Hyper-V

Brandon LeeJanuary 10, 2017
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Copy ISO file to Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

For those coming from the VMware world of doing things and wanting to get their feet wet with Hyper-V, one of the nagging little things that you might run into when first trying to deploy a VM with Hyper-V is…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeJanuary 10, 2017
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How to Verify VM Backups with Nakivo

It can’t be stressed enough with backing up virtual environments, how important it is to verify your backups. You can easily do that with Nakivo Backup and Replication verify backups with screenshots. What better way to verify your backups than to…
Networking

Brandon LeeJanuary 6, 2017
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Copper 10g Twinax cables not linking

Most by now are running 10g network connections at least in the core network or especially in virtualization environments with top of rack switches aggregating network traffic from ESXi hosts. I ran into an issue recently with copper 10g twinax…
home lab

Brandon LeeJanuary 4, 2017
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Monitoring Home Lab Network like Production

Most of us die hard geeks are running home labs as part of the never ending learning process AND because, well, we LIKE doing it enough, we want to tinker around with technology at home. With that being said, to…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeDecember 30, 2016
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Vembu Quick VM Recovery Ensures Business Continuity with Minimal Downtime

When disaster strikes and business operations are interrupted by either software or infrastructure failure, the RTO (recovery time objective) or quite simply “how long does it take to recover?” time is crucial. Vembu BDR Suite provides a complete approach to…