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

Brandon LeeNovember 16, 2015
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Create a Windows SXS install share

If you find yourself spinning up many Windows Server VMs like I do, you may not want to sit and wait for your Windows Server 2012 R2 VM to download the .NET package that you are trying to install with…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeNovember 13, 2015
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AppAssure vCenter Permissions for Exporting Virtual Standby VMs

In working recently with AppAssure in exporting VMs for Virtual Standby purposes, I found a lack of documentation in AppAssure or on the net surrounding permissions required in vCenter to export VMs as Virtual Standbys. I wanted to share with…
Security

Brandon LeeNovember 11, 2015
4 17,454

Sophos XG UTM firewall virtual appliance install and configure

So the other day I received the announcement from Sophos they had released their “next generation” firewall appliance that would be providing the way forward for current 9.x users. Sophos did mention they are keeping both code branches however and…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeNovember 5, 2015
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Can’t remove permissions from vCenter Server VCSA 6

Recently, I came across a weird issue with permissions in vCenter. A list of user permissions were displayed within vCenter server of users from a trusted domain that had permissions to the server. However, we wanted to removed those permissions…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeNovember 2, 2015
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Best Practices using VLANs with iSCSI and vMotion

So many times, the discussion comes up with using vlans , how to use them, and when they need to be implemented, especially in best practices using vlans with iscsci and vmotion. Do you always use vlans with iscsi and…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeOctober 29, 2015
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USB 3.0 thumb drive not showing in VMware Workstation

For those of you who use VMware Workstation, if you have ever tried to mount maybe a new USB 3.0 thumb drive and have it available as a removable disk in your VMware Workstation guest OS and found that it…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeOctober 28, 2015
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AppAssure Multiple SCSI controllers after export to VM

So far in using AppAssure in several environments, it works pretty well and seems to shine with VM to VM exports. It does like most backup software though have a few quirks to deal with. If you are an AppAssure…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeOctober 15, 2015
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Cold clone failing targeting vSphere 6 Use Nested ESXi 4.1 instead

In P2V’ing an old environment with several old Windows boxes some of which were domain controllers, I had to use the cold clone 3.03 utility to actually perform the P2V process on the servers in question. One of the issues…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeOctober 14, 2015
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Windows 10 ADK USB boot with VMware cold clone 3.03

So this is probably a really weird combination of old and new. The other day I was working to P2V an old domain controller as is without dcproming down and then back in. Best practice is to dcpromo a DC…
Windows

Brandon LeeOctober 5, 2015
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Can’t get rid of cached credentials Internet Explorer

The other day I had a colleague call me with a pesky credential issue using Internet Explorer. He was connecting to an internal only web server that uses Windows authentication to validate logins to a secure IIS site running in…