Posts by Brandon Lee
Brandon Lee has been in the IT industry for over 15+ years now and has worked in various IT industries spanning education, manufacturing, consulting for various technology companies including Fortune 500 companies. After getting introduced to Virtualization back in 2004, the focus of Brandon's career has centered around virtualization and related technologies. Brandon is a prolific blogger and contributes to the community through various blog posts and technical documentation.
May 23, 2022
How to Back Up Hyper-V Virtual Machines: Ready-to-use Checklist
Microsoft has made tremendous strides getting Hyper-V adopted by enterprise datacenters. Since its early days, Hyper-V has greatly matured into a fully-featured and robust hypervisor that is gaining m ...
by Brandon Lee
May 23, 2022
How To Backup VMware Virtual Machines: Checklist
VMware has long been an industry leader in providing enterprise-level virtualization solutions, such as VMware vSphere – a powerful platform with many key features and functionality, which empowers ...
by Brandon Lee
April 30, 2018
Business Continuity Plan Checklist
This checklist helps organizations create an effective and efficient Business Continuity Plan that ensures they can withstand a disaster successfully.
by Brandon Lee
April 10, 2018
Tape vs. Disk for VM Backup
A look at advantages and disadvantages as well as use cases of backing up VMs to tape vs. disk
by Brandon Lee
December 6, 2017
Hyper-V Replication Setup: Walkthrough
When trying to round out your disaster recovery plan, you will no doubt want to have a replicated copy of virtual machines located in a separate environment. Ideally, the environment would be geograph ...
by Brandon Lee
October 13, 2017
Increasing VM Backup and Replication Speed with Network Acceleration
Network infrastructure and bandwidth are crucial factors when thinking about data protection and recovery tasks, such as VM backup, replication, backup copy, and recovery in VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS E ...
by Brandon Lee
October 4, 2017
Using SAN for VM Backup: Recommendations and Benefits
Storage Area Network (or SAN) has long been staple storage in the enterprise datacenter. Especially since virtualization has also become a major component of enterprise datacenters, traditionally, ava ...
by Brandon Lee
September 8, 2017
File Recovery from VM Backup
When it comes to restoring from VM backups, one of the core functionalities needed is recovering a file or files that may have been accidentally or intentionally deleted, corrupted by a system failure ...
by Brandon Lee
August 7, 2017
VMware Snapshots in vSphere How To
VMware vSphere virtual machines provide powerful capabilities that allow today’s workloads to have a very agile, versatile, and efficient environment for software. One of the tantalizingly cool feat ...
by Brandon Lee
July 31, 2017
Back Up a vCenter Server Appliance: How-To
One of the downsides with earlier versions of the vCenter server appliance or VCSA was the lack of a native backup mechanism within the appliance to perform backups of your vCenter data. With VMware v ...
by Brandon Lee