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 LeeSeptember 30, 2024
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Install Windows Server 2025 on Proxmox

With the Windows Server 2025 Preview release available, I know many are trying out Windows Server 2025 across their environments, including home labs running Proxmox VE Server. Let’s take a look at the process to install Windows Server 2025 on…
Proxmox

Brandon LeeSeptember 27, 2024
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Mount Synology Drive in Proxmox with NFS

Mounting your NAS storage inside of Proxmox is a great way to add storage to your Proxmox VE Server for things like storing ISO images and other purposes, even running virtual machines. Let’s look at a helpful guide on how…
Storage

Brandon LeeSeptember 26, 2024
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Configure TerraMaster Hyper Cache NAS SSD Caching

In working with the TerraMaster F4-424 Max, one of the features that I wanted to play around with was the SSD cache on this hybrid NAS. I installed (2) NVMe drives in the unit along with the spindles that I…
Storage

Brandon LeeSeptember 25, 2024
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TerraMaster F4-424 Max NAS Review for Home Lab

In my opinion, NAS devices are getting better and better with more powerful hardware and better software on top of them. I recently reviewed the TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus and was really impressed with the unit, it is actually serving…
Storage

Brandon LeeSeptember 24, 2024
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Ceph Storage Calculator to find Capacity and Cost

If you are spinning up a Ceph storage pool and working with Ceph to store things like virtual machines in your Proxmox VE Server cluster, you may want to have an easy way to calculate the usable storage for your…
Storage

Brandon LeeSeptember 23, 2024
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RAIDZ Calculator to find ZFS Capacity and Cost

Manually calculating your ZFS RAID storage capacity and cost can be something that you want to do if you are building out ZFS implementation. You may be looking for a ZFS RAID calculator that can help with this. Take a…
home lab

Brandon LeeSeptember 20, 2024
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Share your Home Lab 2024 and Win a $799 Mini PC

In an effort to motivate ones to share their home labs with the community, I will be giving away a Beelink SEi14 Mini PC to a random winner who shares pics and specs of their home lab. Let me share…
home lab

Brandon LeeSeptember 19, 2024
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Enable CPU C States for Massive Power Savings for your Home Server

I have been deep-diving lately into helpful suggestions, configurations, and settings that help to lower the power bill in a home lab or edge environment with server hardware or even mini PCs running as servers. I want to shed light…
VMware PowerCLI

Brandon LeeSeptember 18, 2024
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PowerCLI vMotion Enable Easy Switcher Script

Have you found yourself in the position of needing to change which vmkernel ports vMotion is enabled on? Maybe you have to storage vMotion a VM to a different cluster and need to make sure that vMotion is on the…
Windows

Brandon LeeSeptember 18, 2024
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Windows Admin Center (v2) Public Preview New Features, Download, and Install

Another bit of news caught my attention in the fact that Windows Admin Center (v2) has dropped in public preview. There appear to be a lot of new features and things to talk about with this release. So, let’s dive…