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.

Containers

Brandon LeeJanuary 13, 2023
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Best docker containers for Synology NAS

I am a big fan of Docker containers and Synology NAS devices. The great thing about Synology NAS units with the Synology DSM operating system is it allows running docker container instances on your Synology NAS. Running the Docker Engine…
vSAN

Brandon LeeJanuary 9, 2023
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HCIBench – Speedtest for VMware vSAN storage

If you work with VMware vSAN and are looking for a benchmarking tool for your vSAN datastore, the HCIbench tool is the de facto standard for testing out your vSAN storage performance. It uses test VMs to generate load on…
Windows Subsystem for Linux

Brandon LeeJanuary 4, 2023
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Windows Subsystem for Linux has no installed distributions

Windows Subsystem for Linux is a great environment for working with Linux tools, applications, utilities, bash command prompt shell, etc., from a Windows environment, as long as you don’t run into “Windows Subsystem for Linux has no installed distributions”. Windows…
Containers

Brandon LeeJanuary 2, 2023
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Docker Rename container from the command line and GUI

You may be running several Docker container instances in your lab environment and elsewhere. Docker container environments are becoming increasingly common for self-hosted services. Docker containers allow spinning up services quickly and running services more efficiently than in virtual machines…
home lab

Brandon LeeDecember 30, 2022
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IoT Notification System Push Notifications for Home Lab no SMTP required

There has been an explosion of IoT devices across consumer and enterprise environments leading to IoT notification system needs. IoT or Internet of things devices comprises sensors, connected industrial equipment, and other hardware that has a network connection and can…
Containers

Brandon LeeDecember 28, 2022
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Monitor docker containers with 6 Free tools

When you have numerous containers running in your environment, whether in production or in your home lab, you need to have Docker container monitoring tools. These allow you to monitor docker containers running on your container hosts or swarm clusters…
Kubernetes

Brandon LeeDecember 26, 2022
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K8s at home – Top distros for labs and learning

Running Kubernetes at home is a great way to learn more about K8s and run real workloads to get a feel for how you can run containers in a highly-available way. All are great for learning, no matter what configuration…
Kubernetes

Brandon LeeDecember 22, 2022
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Microk8s ingress controller configuration with Traefik

Microk8s is one of the easiest forms of Kubernetes you can spin up in an environment as it only requires a few commands to spin up a cluster. It includes the ability to spin up single-node clusters. It also has…
Networking

Brandon LeeDecember 20, 2022
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Palo Alto PA 440 New Firewall Review

For the past few years now, I have been running the Palo Alto Networks PA 220 in the home lab environment. I have the lab bundle subscription with the PA 220. However, I have seen the PA 220 will no…
Storage

Brandon LeeDecember 19, 2022
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Is Intel Optane Worth It? Awesome vExpert Opportunity

Many have heard that Intel Optane is a significantly faster storage solution than traditional and even the modern NVMe storage devices we all know and love. With Optane memory, even faster access to storage is possible due to the design…