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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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    Configuring jumbo frames between two servers

    In tweaking an AppAssure environment recently, I ran through Dell documentation on performance tweaks that are mentioned to help improve AppAssure backup performance. ย One of the recommended tweaks for network performance is setting up jumbo frames between your primary core…

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    Untangle 12 Installation and configuration

    I am constantly on a quest to keep finding the better or best firewall/UTM appliance for home/lab purposes as well as for small business use cases where installing a virtual appliance or other whitebox appliance makes sense. ย I have been…

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    Cisco SG300 time configuration

    Recently, afterย working with some logging on my Cisco SG300-20 switch, I wanted to write up a quick post on Cisco SG300 time configuration and how to go about setting this up. Cisco SG300 time configuration For the purposes of the…

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    Cisco Native VLAN mismatch

    After installing a test Meraki MS220-8 switch in my lab environment at home, I noticed when I remoted into my core switch for my lab, a Cisco SG300-20, it was displaying messages about a Native VLAN mismatch. I wanted to…