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.

vSphere 6

Brandon LeeAugust 3, 2015
4 12,591

vRealize Operations Manager Reset Admin password can’t login

Recently, in working with vRealize Operations Manager, I was prompted to change the admin password while logging into the console. Using the prompts at the console of the vApp, I was able to successfully set the password. However, after that point, access…
vSphere 6

Brandon LeeAugust 3, 2015
2 1,408

Connecting to Virtual Center server is not supported by this client

Lately, I have been trying to get my Windows 10 VM up and running with a lot of the management tools that I use on a daily basis. After loaded the vSphere client from one of my ESXi hosts, I…
Windows 10

Brandon LeeJuly 29, 2015
68 502,884

Windows 10 Edge can’t be opened using the built-in administrator account

With the release of Windows 10 today, many are spinning up VMs and loading the new workstation on test boxes to take a look at the final build version. If you are like me, one of the first things I…
Networking

Brandon LeeJuly 28, 2015
1 7,739

Home Lab Create a DMZ VLAN

A really cool fun project I have been wanting to take on at home for a while now is to create a DMZ environment using my Cisco SG300-20 switch, VLANs, inter vlan routing, ACLs, and VGT or VST. If you…
Networking

Brandon LeeJuly 20, 2015
0 14,472

Dell NSeries Switch Basic configuration cheat sheet

In working recently with a few Dell NSeries switches on the bench and in production, I have created a simple cheat sheet for myself with configuration commands I find myself needing most in tweaking and configuring the Dell switches. I…
Security

Brandon LeeJuly 8, 2015
0 7,709

Configure Sophos UTM to work with Filezilla FTP Server

If you are running Sophos UTM at home and would like to use FileZilla FTP server, there are a few things that you need to setup to allow FTP communication with your internal server. My internal server at home is…
ActiveDirectory

Brandon LeeJune 26, 2015
0 4,342

How to Sync Passwords between Child and Parent Domain with FIM 2010 R2

For those of you in a multi domain environment due to the structure of your company or from migrations from legacy directory services into AD, there often is the need to synchronize various directory objects with other directory objects, especially…
Networking

Brandon LeeJune 17, 2015
2 899

Basic Dell Powerconnect Nseries iSCSI switch configuration

Recently, I got my hands on a couple of Dell PowerConnect 8132f switches for a client to configure for iSCSI traffic for a 3-node VMware cluster that was being implemented for server consolidation, etc. I stepped through the basic configuration for…
Networking

Brandon LeeJune 5, 2015
17 28,435

Setting up VLANs Cisco SG300-20 Switch

The Cisco SG300-20 Switch is a great home lab switch that features most of the capabilities that ones see and use in the enterprise environment and for a cheap price. I wanted to write up a quick blog post on…
Hyper-V

Brandon LeeJune 2, 2015
1 13,971

Setup a Hyper-V Cluster Lab in VMware Workstation

Setting up a Hyper-V cluster lab in VMware Workstation is not too difficult and can easily be accomplished in a couple of hours worth of work to get things configured and ready to go. Basically the same requirements hold true…