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.

Networking

Brandon LeeSeptember 22, 2015
0 19,073

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
0 5,578

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,…
Networking

Brandon LeeSeptember 9, 2015
0 1,592

Enable SNMPv3 on Summit XOS Switch configured with enhanced security

Recently, I ran into an issue connected an XOS switch to Netsight monitoring. After looking at Netsight, the console simply said the status was “Contact Lost.” From within Netsight however, I could ping the switch (simply right click the switch listed…
Networking

Brandon LeeSeptember 2, 2015
0 16,965

How to Setup Port Mirroring on Dell Nseries switch

The ability to mirror a port is a very crucial part of troubleshooting especially when you need to see traffic that is ingressing and egressing from a specific port that a host is connected to. The best way to see…
Networking

Brandon LeeAugust 31, 2015
0 3,344

Sophos UTM Block web traffic for only one host

Within Sophos UTM, as much as I like the product and have enjoyed using it in my home lab environment, blocking a single host from being able to hit the web is really not very intuitive at all. In other…
SQL

Brandon LeeAugust 27, 2015
0 9,592

SQL 2014 Setup Failed Analysis Services

Recently in building up a SQL 2014 Standard edition VM running on Windows Server 2012 R2, I ran into a peculiar issue with the SQL install with Analysis Services relating to permissions. The SQL installation went all the way through…
Networking

Brandon LeeAugust 13, 2015
0 13,747

Configure Inter VLAN Routing with Multiple Switches

The question comes up often when talking about inter vlan routing and how this is done with multiple switches in a production environment. Many examples only show inter vlan routing with a single switch. The concept for multiple switches really…
Windows 10

Brandon LeeAugust 12, 2015
0 6,493

Delete the Recovery partition Windows 10

Recently, in helping a buddy out with his Mac running Parallels and Windows 10 inside there – he was having an issue where he had added space to his OS drive. He had added raw space to the VM itself,…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeAugust 10, 2015
0 307

Check Equalogic SAN hard drives for errors

Many use and love Equalogic SANs in their virtual environments. I wanted to write up a quick post on how to see if any of your hard drives inside your Equalogic have experienced or are experiencing drive errors. This can…
Networking

Brandon LeeAugust 5, 2015
1 46,523

Change the font and color in SuperPutty

Many use putty as their default choice in terminal emulator software and it is probably the defacto standard in programs used to connect to routers, switches, and other network devices. If you know and love putty, most likely you have…