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 LeeJune 17, 2015
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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 28,477

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
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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…
vSphere 6

Brandon LeeMay 20, 2015
2 8,068

Change vRealize Operations Manager 6.01 appliance IP Address

Recently in upgrading a production vSphere 5.5 environment to 6.0, I have been working through the individual infrastructure pieces left over to upgrade. I spun up a new vRealize Operations Manager Appliance to take the place of the current vCenter…
vSphere 6

Brandon LeeMay 18, 2015
4 35,918

Install Dell OMSA 8.1 in ESXi 6.0 and add to OME

Recently, after upgrading a Dell Cluster to vSphere 6.0, one of the tasks that I wanted to accomplish was to install the new Open Manage Server Administrator or OMSA in my newly upgraded Dell R620’s and then add those servers…
vSphere 6

Brandon LeeMay 15, 2015
1 5,563

Upgrade ESXi 5.5 Dell Server cluster to ESXi 6 with VUM

In the post today I would like to go through the process to update a Dell ESXi 5.5 cluster to 6.0 using VUM. Updating a Dell Server cluster running ESXi 5.5 to version 6 is really no different that updating…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeMay 13, 2015
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Upgrade VMTurbo to version 5.2

VMTurbo is a great free product out there that is designed to help you monitor your virtual environment free! Recently, they have released version 5.2. The process to update is very easy, but I wanted to show you guys the…
Web

Brandon LeeMay 12, 2015
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How to block ports with Cloudflare

If you are utilizing Cloudflare as a reverse proxy service for your backend webserver, you may desire to have Cloudflare block certain ports back to your webserver. Cloudlfare passes along more ports than just 80 and 443 by default as…
vSphere 6

Brandon LeeMay 9, 2015
0 5,206

Upgrading Windows vCenter Server and Update Manager 5.5 to 6.0

The upgrade process to get from the Windows version of vCenter Server 5.5 and Update Manager 5.5 to 6.0 is very straightforward. The installer in my case worked flawlessly and had no issues running the install wizard and getting the…
Networking

Brandon LeeMay 7, 2015
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Cisco SG300-20 basic configuration for VMware Lab

Cisco’s line of small business fully managed switches I think are really great for learning Cisco networking as well as having everything you need to create a really functional VMware lab at the layer 2 and 3 network level. The…