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.
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    Sophos UTM configuration for Obi

    For those of you running the Sophos UTM appliance and who are interested in running an Obi device behind your Sophos UTM appliance, we have put together a selection of firewall rules and other configuration changes for Sophos UTM configuration…

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    How to configure Port Forwarding in Sophos UTM

    There was a question in the comments on a recent blog postย on how to configure port forwarding in Sophos UTM. ย While a little less intuitive than other UTM firewalls such as Untangle, it is still very easy to figure out.…

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    Updating VMware Operations Manager vApp

    Recently with all of the bug fixes and security updates coming out from VMware and others due to Ghost vulnerability, etc, I decided among other VMware updates to update the Operations Manager vApp. ย Updating VMware Operations Manager vApp is relatively…

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    VMware announces vSphere 6, vSAN 6

    Below are notes I took during yesterday’s announcement from VMware in their live event: Vmwareโ€™s Announcement for Software defined Datacenter โ€“ OneCloud Four components: โ€ข vSphere โ€ข Network โ€ข Virtualized storage โ€ข Hybrid cloud It enables you to transform your…

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    OBiON softphone Busy Signal Fix

    Recently, I purchased an Obi200 VOIP device for home. ย I have to say that I have been thoroughly impressed with this little VOIP box. ย I think for anyone who wants a potentially free house phone, and you have an Internet…

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    How to upgrade VMware Operations Manager VM Tools

    In rolling out the latest vCenter and ESXi host updates that have come about in the last couple of days, the other part of that step is making sure that all vm tools are updated on guest VMs in the…

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    Updating VMware vCenter Appliance 5.5 to 5.5 Update 2d

    For smaller environments the vCenter Server appliance is a great and easy way to get up and running with vCenter. ย The update process to keep the appliance up to date is rather painless as well. ย With the recent release of…

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    How to Increase Home Network Security

    Let’s face it, these days, our digital security is under attack just about anywhere we are and access our data. ย However, we may not think about security when we are at home. ย After all, home is our private place, our…

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    How to connect Shrew Soft VPN client to Sophos IPsec VPN

    So far I have really been impressed with the features and power of the Sophos UTM appliance. ย I have ran it both in a software based applianced running on a whitebox atom powered machine and also in a VMware virtual…