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.
  • Virtualizationrdplab04

    Use same domain login for production and lab

    Labs are cool right? ย We can use them for many use cases when it comes to testing and proof of concept mock ups. ย If you have been tasked to spin up a copy of your production environment in a lab…

  • Virtualizationveeamerror04

    Veeam the object has already been deleted or has not been completely created

    A quick post here of an issue I ran into supporting a Veeam Backup job in a particular environment. ย After needing to restore a handful of VMs to rollback a few bad changes made, the next backup job failed. ย The…

  • Virtualizationrrcluster04

    P2V Windows Cluster Rapid Recovery

    The last few days I have been involved with a project to P2V an old Windows 2003 (yes cringe, bang head against wall now) cluster running SQL 2005. ย The P2V is simply a stop gap solution to get the cluster…

  • Virtualizationnbeta02

    Try Nakivo 6.1 Beta Download

    Having used a lot of different backup products over the years in the enterprise and in the home lab environment, there are many qualities of a backup software that become important – functionality, simplicity, and stability. ย You want something that…

  • NSXnsxdomfeat

    VMware NSX Domain conflict with 1 existing domain

    Recently, I ran into a peculiar issue with VMware NSX trying to add domains for security grouping. ย Through the GUI the process is fairly straightforward. ย However, after adding a domain in testing, removing, and adding again, I ran into an…

  • ActiveDirectoryjoinissues

    Troubleshooting Domain Join Issues

    Have you ever had one of those situations where you could not get a workstation or server to join the domain? ย I had this happen recently and wanted to detail a few of the steps I used to troubleshoot and…

  • Windowsauditpolset01

    Set Audit Policy Powershell

    Scripting mundane setup tasks is essential in today’s world of server/workstation provisioning in the fast paced Virtualization environments we as system administrators manage. ย If you are like me, you may have googled “set audit policy powershell” to find a quick…

  • Networkingeelacpfeat

    Create LACP LAG between Extreme and Enterasys switches

    A late breaking project I was involved with recently with a clientย was adding 10G port count to an environment that had simply outgrown the number of 10G ports that were being used. ย Another ESXi host was being added to scale…

  • Networkingmr18_feat

    Cisco Meraki MR18 install review

    I was excited recently to get my hands on a Cisco Meraki MR18 and wanted to share with you all some thoughts and opinions of the product after having installed, configured, and worked with it for a few days. ย The…

  • VirtualizationlinuxP2V04

    P2V Linux server network config

    I wanted to write up a quick post of a few hurdles I went through with P2V’ing a linux web server that was also running cPanel. ย The P2V process worked as expected, however upon the first boot of the VM,…