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Author: 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.
Installing the vSphere 6 Replication Appliance
Virtualization

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…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 28, 2015January 11, 2021
Extreme Summit XOS Basic Initial Switch Configuration
Networking

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…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 22, 2015October 25, 2023
Exclude hosts from vRealize Operations manager license
VMware

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…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 10, 2015January 11, 2021
Enable SNMPv3 on Summit XOS Switch configured with enhanced security
Networking

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…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 9, 2015January 11, 2021
How to Setup Port Mirroring on Dell Nseries switch
Networking

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…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 2, 2015January 11, 2021
Sophos UTM Block web traffic for only one host
Networking

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…

by Brandon LeeAugust 31, 2015November 22, 2023
SQL 2014 Setup Failed Analysis Services
SQL

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…

by Brandon LeeAugust 27, 2015January 11, 2021
Configure Inter VLAN Routing with Multiple Switches
Networking

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…

by Brandon LeeAugust 13, 2015January 11, 2021
Delete the Recovery partition Windows 10
Windows 10

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…

by Brandon LeeAugust 12, 2015January 11, 2021
Check Equalogic SAN hard drives for errors
Virtualization

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…

by Brandon LeeAugust 10, 2015January 11, 2021

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