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.

Windows Server 2025

Brandon LeeApril 4, 2024
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Windows Server 2025 New Storage Features

Windows Server 2025 includes many great new features that will allow organizations to have even more tools to the enterprise and cloud. One of the areas where Windows Server 2025 will introduce many new improvements is in the area of…
home lab

Brandon LeeApril 3, 2024
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Home Lab Nested Virtualization E-book Download

Nested virtualization is one of the most underutilized tools in home labs in my honest opinion. It is a tool and technology that allows you to have what you need to “rinse and repeat” steps in a home lab. Or,…
Powershell

Brandon LeeApril 2, 2024
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Get-CimInstance: Get WMI Objects with PowerShell

In case you haven’t heard, starting on January 29, 2024, Microsoft has deprecated the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC), disabled by default on Windows 11 insider builds. If your application depends on WMIC, Microsoft, in their documentation, recommends that you…
Proxmox

Brandon LeeApril 1, 2024
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Top 10 Proxmox CLI Commands for Ultimate Control in 2024

One of the great things about Proxmox VE Server is that it contains very powerful command line utilities for controlling, configuring, and managing your Proxmox server. There are many Proxmox CLI utilities you need to know for ultimate control over…
Windows Server 2025

Brandon LeeMarch 29, 2024
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Windows Server 2025 Active Directory New Features

Windows Server 2025 contains many great new improvements from previous versions of Windows Server. One of the areas where we are seeing many new features and capabilities introduced is Active Directory, including a new domain functional level and forest functional…
Proxmox

Brandon LeeMarch 28, 2024
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Proxmox New Import Wizard for Migrating VMware ESXi VMs

I am super excited with some news coming from Proxmox hot off the press. They have released a new import wizard to migrate VMware virtual machines and it is available now! This I think is going to be a welcome…
Virtualization

Brandon LeeMarch 27, 2024
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VMware migration to Microsoft options

There has certainly been massive disruption in the VMware camp over the past several months. Now that the Broadcom purchase is final, Broadcom has introduced tectonic changes to VMware products, solutions, licensing, and even their partner program. It would be…
Windows Server 2025

Brandon LeeMarch 26, 2024
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Windows Server 2025 vs Windows Server 2022

After attending the March Windows Server Summit today, there were a lot of interesting insights shared about Windows Server 2025. I have compiled the new information on Windows Server 2025 vs Windows Server 2022 to see how these two modern…
Containers

Brandon LeeMarch 26, 2024
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Best Docker Containers for Home Server in 2024

There are so many great containerized solutions and container images out there freely available for running applications and services in a virtualization environment. Using a simple Docker Compose file, you can quickly and easily spin up new applications in your…
DevOps

Brandon LeeMarch 25, 2024
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Jenkins Docker Compose Install and Configuration

I have been experimenting with many different continuous integration and continuous deployment tools in the home lab. Recently, I have been using GitLab for most of my workflows. However, I have played around with Jenkins in the past and want…