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.

Proxmox

Brandon LeeMay 23, 2025
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ProxMenux Might Be the Best Proxmox Management Tool You’re Not Using

I caught wind a few weeks back of a new tool that I know I hadn’t heard about as of yet. It is called ProxMenux and after 5 minutes of using it, I knew that it is probably the best…
Proxmox

Brandon LeeMay 22, 2025
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How to Enable GPU Passthrough to LXC Containers in Proxmox

I have been playing around lately with the GPU passthrough functionality in Proxmox and looking at the best ways to run AI workloads in Proxmox. Virtual machine passthrough is a great way to run something like Ollama. However, I wanted…
AI

Brandon LeeMay 21, 2025
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Still Worth It? Running AI Workloads on a GTX 1060 in 2025

If you are wanting to get into running AI models on your local workstation or home lab server, you may assume that you need to have the latest video card or a video card that costs hundreds if not upwards…
AI

Brandon LeeMay 20, 2025
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Run Ollama with NVIDIA GPU in Proxmox VMs and LXC containers

I have been having tons of fun working with local LLMs in the home lab the last few days and I wanted to share a few steps and tweaks having to do with how to run Ollama with NVIDIA GPU…
AI

Brandon LeeMay 19, 2025
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Best Self-hosted GitHub Copilot AI Coding Alternatives

AI coding assistants are all the rage these days, from vibe coding, to helping to level the playing field for those who aren’t a developer. For those of us in the home lab, it is a great way to level-up…
AI

Brandon LeeMay 16, 2025
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5 Best LLM Models You Can Run in Docker on Low-Power Hardware

I have been super interested in running LLMs at home with the help of great open source tools freely available out there. Large Language Models (LLMs) are now not just limited to large datacenters full of GPUs. It is now…
AI

Brandon LeeMay 15, 2025
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Meet kubectl-ai: Google Just Delivered the Best Tool for Kubernetes Management

There is no question that the world of Kubernetes is evolving fast. The AI revolution has also brought about some tremendously helpful tools to work with and on Kubernetes clusters. Most IDE coding tools now have chat with AI bots…
AI

Brandon LeeMay 14, 2025
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Self-Hosting LLMs with Docker and Proxmox: How to Run Your Own GPT

One of the coolest things that you can self-host is large language models (LLMs) like GPT. AI has transformed everything from writing content to coding. However, if you want to run your own self-hosted GPT this is a great idea…
Proxmox

Brandon LeeMay 13, 2025
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My Top 3 Proxmox Server Builds for Performance and Efficiency

I have had so much fun the past few months building Proxmox servers based around Minisforum boards that have come out on the market as of recently, including the BD795M, BD795i SE, and the BD790i X3D. All of these boards…
DevOps

Brandon LeeMay 12, 2025
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The Real First Step to DevOps: Mastering Containers with Docker

As with any discipline, there are many different paths that lead to the same goal. However, there are certain skills that are foundational to learning the skill you are attempting to learn. With DevOps, there are many different foundational skills…