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.
December 20, 2022
VMware vSphere Roles and Permissions
The assigning of VMware vSphere permissions in vCenter is tied to the role a user is paired to. A role is a predefined set of privileges. There are default roles that are already created within vCente ...
by Brandon Lee
December 20, 2022
Tape Backup vs Disk Backup for VMs
A look at advantages and disadvantages as well as use cases of backing up VMs to tape vs. disk
by Brandon Lee
December 20, 2022
How to Create a Fixed-Size Hard Disk for a Hyper-V VM
One of the topics mentioned that we want to take a closer look at here is how to create a fixed size hard disk on a guest Hyper-V VM. There are still a lot of differing opinions and conflicting docume ...
by Brandon Lee
December 1, 2022
Creating and Configuring VMs in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
In the previous posts, we walked through the initial configuration of our Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V server. This included installation, administration, storage settings, network configuration, and r ...
by Brandon Lee
December 1, 2022
Configuring ESXi VM Networks | VMware Administration Essentials
In the previous posts, we took a look at setting up VMkernel networks, including storage and vMotion. Now, we discuss configuring ESXi networks for the VMs themselves. VM networks provide connectivity ...
by Brandon Lee
December 1, 2022
Basic PowerCLI Scripting for VMware vSphere
Previously, we looked at PowerCLI – what it is, how to install it, and integrating into Windows Powershell ISE. Now, let’s take a look at basic scripting including connecting, PowerCLI commandlets ...
by Brandon Lee
December 1, 2022
Configuring a VMware ESXi Cluster
While VMware ESXi is a powerful platform in a standalone host configuration (single ESXi host), the true power, high availability, scalability, resource management, and resiliency of the platform is o ...
by Brandon Lee
June 10, 2022
Best Practices of Using SAN Storage for VM Backup
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
June 9, 2022
What Is Application-Aware VM Backup?
When it comes to backups, there is a wide range of options that must be considered such as backup type, frequency, source, destination, and many others. Back in the early days of traditional backups, ...
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