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.
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    Expecting 2 bootbanks found 0 VMware ESXi 6

    I ran into a pesky issue yesterday when rolling through a slew of host updates in a few production clusters. ย I had one host that presented with some odd issues during the update manager remediation phase. ย After rebooting the particular…

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    Update manager Upgrade VMware ESXi 6.0 update 2

    Below are the simple and easy steps to get your ESXi 6.0 u1 or earlier installation to update 2 (3620759) version. ย Using update manager the process is very simple. ย Make sure before updating your hosts that you have updated your…

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    VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 2 Host Client

    With the release of ESXi 6.0 Update 2, one of the cool things with this release is VMware has included as RTM the Host Client which is written in HTML5 and allows administrators to have quick and easy access to…

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    Cisco VIRL Review

    After using Cisco VIRL for a few days now, I wanted to write up a post on my thoughts and maybe even calling it a pseudo Cisco VIRL review of sorts. ย However, I will keep this post updated as to…

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    Intel Proset no vlans or teaming in Windows 10

    In helping out with a Windows 10 upgrade project on a precision workstation, I stumbled onto a show stopper issue with the Intel Proset drivers. ย After the upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1, it was discovered the Proset drivers…

  • Networkingprtg_internet06b

    Use PRTG Monitor Internet Connection

    If you are looking for an all around great network monitoring tool, then PRTG Network Monitor is a great choice. ย It is a pay for product, however, if you only have need for 100 or fewer sensors, you can use…

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    Free Rogue Network Device Detection

    If you have ever looked for free rogue network device detection, such as similar to what McAfee EPO provides, I wrote an article not long ago about monitoring your home network with a tool called arpwatch. ย Arpwatch is a slick…

  • Networkingvirl02

    Autonetkit not working VIRL

    Recently, I decided to get my hands on VIRL which is the Virtual Internet Routing Lab software from Cisco. ย Being a long time GNS3 user, I wanted to see how comparable or superior VIRL is to GNS3. ย So far I…

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    Agentless protection Rapid Recovery 6.0.1

    As I mentioned here in the upgrading to Rapid Recovery 6.0.1 post, one of the most anticipated features for me of Rapid Recovery was the agentless backup. ย Having to maintain agents of any kind is not fun for the administrator.…

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    Upgrade AppAssure 5.4.3 to Rapid Recovery 6.0.1

    For those of you that don’t know, Dell’s AppAssure product has been rebranded as Rapid Recovery. ย With 6.0.1 being released, and touting some very worthy features, I decided it was time to upgrade. ย In this post we will take a…