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

Brandon LeeMay 12, 2021
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Windows Server DHCP VLAN Configuration: Detailed Guide

Network segmentation is a great way to compartmentalize the various networks you need to run in your environment. This provides many benefits from both a management and security perspective. When segmenting your networks, one of the things that you have…
Windows Server 2022

Brandon LeeMay 11, 2021
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Upgrade Windows Server 2019 Active Directory to Windows Server 2022

Windows Server Active Directory upgrades are a part of administering Windows Server Active Directory infrastructure on-premises. Currently, businesses may have a mix of Windows Server infrastructure and many are running Windows Server 2019 domain controllers in their environment which currently…
Automation

Brandon LeeMay 10, 2021
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Packer Build Ubuntu 21.04 for VMware vSphere

If you aren’t already using Hashicorp Packer for automating builds of the various operating systems you use in your environment, you are missing out. Packer is a great tool that allows automating the builds you are using in your virtual…
Software Defined Storage

Brandon LeeMay 7, 2021
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StarWind HCI Evaluation Kit Released: Config Walkthrough

It is not often that you can fully try out an entire solution from a vendor in your own lab environment with all the management tools to get the full experience. StarWind is doing something unique and extremely cool with…
Automation

Brandon LeeMay 5, 2021
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Terraform vSphere tutorial: Linux Virtual Machine Clone

Terraform is a great infrastructure as code (IaC) platform that allows easily spinning up and customizing infrastructure. The great thing is you can use it for many different environments, not just VMware vSphere. However, for this Terraform vSphere tutorial, I…
Windows Server 2022

Brandon LeeMay 4, 2021
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New Windows Server 2022 Container Image Preview Install

Just a few days ago, Microsoft released news of the new Windows Server 2022 base OS container image preview. It is built from Windows Server 2022 with the Desktop Experience. This provides many great new benefits and lifting of many…
vSphere 7

Brandon LeeMay 3, 2021
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Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) for ESXi 7.0 Update 2a Upgrade

VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 contains many great enhancements that I have written about here. Since Update 2 was pulled initially due to an error with the upgrade, VMware has released vSphere 7.0 Update 2a that resolves the upgrade error.…
vSphere 7

Brandon LeeApril 29, 2021
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VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 2a Released for Download

Well, we have been waiting for a few weeks now for the updated release of ESXi 7.0 Update 2 to drop since the first release of ESXi 7.0 Update 2 was pulled due to an issue with an upgrade that…
Linux

Brandon LeeApril 29, 2021
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Ubuntu Server CLI Cheat Sheet

One of the beautiful things about Linux is the power of the Linux CLI. This is what draws many to Linux to begin with. Granted, Windows has come a long way since the introduction of PowerShell, and now especially with…
Software Defined Storage

Brandon LeeApril 28, 2021
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StarWind SAN & NAS Free for VMware vSphere Released

StarWind has released a new and very exciting new solution that is based on their robust VSAN solution, called StarWind SAN & NAS Free. This solution offers the ability to easily provision an enterprise NAS or SAN in your vSphere…