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.

Security

Brandon LeeSeptember 27, 2021
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vCenter Security Bug Workaround with vCenter Firewall Configuration

Recently we had one of the most significant security advisories that I can remember with vCenter Server. Compromising VMware vCenter Server is the holy grail of a vSphere environment for an attacker as it allows total control of the VMs…
Security

Brandon LeeSeptember 22, 2021
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Patch vCenter Server Critical Security Bug CVE-2021-22005 Download

Security concerns related to our VMware vSphere environments keep us up at night, and with good reason. Critical security bugs that affect your hypervisor virtualization environment can give an attacker the “keys to the kingdom.” It could potentially allow them…
DevOps

Brandon LeeSeptember 22, 2021
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Install Jenkins on Ubuntu 21.04 with Self-signed SSL certificate

There are many great platforms out there that provide automation server capabilities, including making use of CI/CD pipelines. Many familiar names include Git, GitLab, BitBucket, and others. However, a platform that is well known in the circles of DevOps is…
VDI

Brandon LeeSeptember 21, 2021
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Linux Thin Client Agent for remote workers with Praim Agile4Linux

In this past year and a half, organizations have been required to use new solutions to empower remote employees to communicate, collaborate, and access business-critical resources. For many remote workers, this has meant using a device to connect to corporate…
Windows Server 2022

Brandon LeeSeptember 20, 2021
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Windows Server 2022 with Azure Network Adapter

It has been quite some time since I have written about the Azure Network Adapter. This is a feature that is exposed in Windows Admin Center managed server of Windows Server 2012 R2 and higher, now including Windows Server 2022.…
Workstation

Brandon LeeSeptember 16, 2021
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Move a vSphere vSAN ESXi VM to VMware Workstation

So, in the home lab environment, I had a use case come up for moving one of my DevOps VMs from my VMware vSphere vSAN environment to VMware Workstation for better local interaction on my workstation, using VMware Workstation. VMware…
Windows Server 2022

Brandon LeeSeptember 15, 2021
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Windows Server 2022 Secured Core Virtual TPM

Microsoft’s latest server release, Windows Server 2022, represents the latest and greatest security features available to organizations today. It provides a new feature called Secured Core Server that provides a “one-stop” shop to enabling all of the recommended core security…
Tanzu

Brandon LeeSeptember 14, 2021
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Install Applications in vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes using Helm

If you followed along in my VMware vSphere Tanzu Kubernetes Home lab post, hopefully, this helped anyone desiring to stand up vSphere with Tanzu in their home lab environment and start playing around with Kubernetes in vSphere. However, once you…
Windows Server 2022

Brandon LeeSeptember 13, 2021
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Windows Server 2022 Install with MDT

There are many ways to install Windows Server 2022 in the enterprise. However, for most, you will want to have an automated deployment of the Windows Server 2022 operating system that allows quickly spinning new servers in your environment when…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeSeptember 9, 2021
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StarWind Backup Appliance (BA) with NVMe Storage performance

Data backups are the most crucial part of any disaster recovery plan and are essential to recovering data to your environment after a disaster or ransomware attack. Needless to say, the faster your backups can take place, businesses are in…