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.
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    Join Windows 10 Azure AD step-by-step

    Today, organizations have evolved beyond using the simple on-premises infrastructure of traditional days. The traditional Active Directory domain that exists on-premises providing identity and access management services to all endpoints is no longer practical. Modern businesses are leveraging solutions in…

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    Restart Management Agents ESXi Impact

    Many of us have certainly been there in times past. You have a host that is not responding correctly or some other issue that is weirdly affecting a specific ESXi host. You may hit a VMware KB that points you…

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    VMware ESXi Passphrase and Account Lockout Configuration

    Configuring password requirements is extremely important when it comes to the overall cybersecurity of your environment. VMware vSphere has the configuration capabilities to support most modern password requirements. When it comes to ESXi we can set ESXi passwords and account…

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    VMware announces VMware Anywhere Workspace

    There is no question that work from home initiatives are here to stay in at least some capacity or another for most organizations. Since the beginning of the global pandemic last year, most businesses have pivoted to work from home…

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    Today, cybersecurity is crucially important for organizations and their business-critical data. In the olden days, security was an afterthought and often consisted of reactive and bolt-on solutions that didn’t really work that well. These were often only provisioned to satisfy…

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    Terraform is arguably one of the most popular DevOps tools across a wide range of platforms. It continues to add features and functionality for DevOps practitioners, engineers, and others working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Today was exciting news for…

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    VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 Native Key Provider Configuration

    To take advantage of the data encryption features of vSphere, you need to have what is referred to as a key management server (KMS). Before the release of VMware vSphere 7 Update 2, you had to use a third-party solution,…

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    Backups are one of the basic forms of protecting business-critical data. However, the infrastructure that organizations are making use of today to host business-critical services is anything but basic. Cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environments such as Google Workspace and Microsoft Office…