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.

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…
Powershell

Brandon LeeOctober 2, 2015
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Powershell Script to check if AppAssure agent is installed on Servers

If you run Dell’s AppAssure backup software in your environment and have a multitude of servers, it is handy to be able to see which servers in your environment have the agent installed and which ones potentially do not. Using…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeSeptember 28, 2015
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Installing the vSphere 6 Replication Appliance

The vSphere Replication functionality which used to reside exclusively in VMware’s SRM product, is currently a standalone appliance now which gives virtualization administrators the replication functionality piece for free in any licensed version of vSphere. The appliance is a small…
Networking

Brandon LeeSeptember 22, 2015
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Extreme Summit XOS Basic Initial Switch Configuration

Those who are familiar with Enterasys switches know that the Extreme XOS CLI is vastly different from the Enterasys line of products however the XOS CLI is the way forward for the future of Extreme, so we might as well…
VMware

Brandon LeeSeptember 10, 2015
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Exclude hosts from vRealize Operations manager license

For those of you running vRealize Operations Manager, you may have a license for say only 6 sockets to monitor your environment. However, you may want to add hosts from your DEV or TEST environments to that same vCenter environment,…