#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Learning Ansible with Jeff Geerling (@geerlingguy)

Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps covers an introduction to Ansible in the #vBrownBag DevOps series and shows how easy it is to get started and build inventories and playbooks to automate tasks with Ansible. Video Homework Slides You can follow Jeff on Twitter @geerlingguy and check out his book – Ansible for DevOps on LeanPub[…]

#vBrownBag Follow-up vCenter 5.1 Technical Deep Dive with Justin King (@vCenterGuy)

A technical deep dive on vCenter 5.1 including SSO, inventory service and focus on the vSphere Web Client. 2013-04-17 20.34 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag US with Justin King (@vCenterGuy) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

Adding VM’s to Inventory

The worst has happened. That sexy ESX host that you spent ages building and perfecting went south. For some reason, the raid you built was corrupt, and now you’ve re-installed ESX. With luck you had your VM’s on some shared storage (SAN, iSCSI, NFS). Or… You’ve just SCP’d over a metric boat load of VM[…]