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 LeeFebruary 6, 2023
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Docker containers keeps restarting after reboot

If you have started working with Docker containers in your environment, you are undoubtedly seeing the benefits of running containers and the flexibility they bring to your application environment. However, one of the necessary skills when working with containers is…
Kubernetes

Brandon LeeFebruary 2, 2023
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Kubernetes vs. VMware vSphere comparison

So many excellent technologies allow IT admins to solve complex technical problems and businesses to solve business problems in unique and innovative ways. VMware vSphere has long been around as the de facto standard in enterprise virtualization for decades now…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeJanuary 30, 2023
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NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10.8 GA new features download

NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a great solution for enterprise backups and continues to add great new features with each release, including the v10.8 release, now the latest and greatest release from NAKIVO that is now GA. Let’s look at…
Monitoring

Brandon LeeJanuary 26, 2023
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Server Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Many great free and open-source monitoring solutions are available for monitoring your servers and applications. In case you have not heard about the free and open-source monitoring solution, Prometheus, we will look at the Prometheus node exporter to scrape metrics…
Software Defined Storage

Brandon LeeJanuary 24, 2023
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Hyper-V Virtual SAN synchronization with StarWind Virtual SAN

The StarWind Virtual SAN solution is one of the easiest ways to run software-defined virtual SAN in Hyper-V. It has many great features that were recently updated to provide an even better solution with faster replication. Let’s look at the…
VMware

Brandon LeeJanuary 23, 2023
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VMware Resource Pool vs Cluster Comparison

There are many different constructs as part of the VMware vSphere environment with vCenter Server and ESXi. VMware vSphere provides many excellent capabilities and tools as part of the vSphere cluster resources for critical workloads. Two components in vSphere provide…
Proxmox

Brandon LeeJanuary 20, 2023
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Proxmox scripts PowerShell Ansible and Terraform

Proxmox is growing more and more popular, especially for home lab enthusiasts and those looking to spin up labs based on totally free and open-source software. Proxmox has a great API that allows throwing automation tasks at the solution and…
Software Defined Storage

Brandon LeeJanuary 16, 2023
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Free Virtual Storage Appliance StarWind SAN & NAS new features

In the virtualized environment, we can use many great tools for storage resources. These include virtual storage appliances, especially to attach to running virtual machine instances in the environment, like VMware vSphere. Recently, StarWind released a new version of their…
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…