This morning, I sat down at my computer with a cup of coffee and start perusing thru my Inbox, and happened across this email from Greg Stuart of vDestination:
Congrats Nick, you are the lucky winner of the vDestination.com Ultimate vSphere Reference Library. I just did a blog post with the video of the drawing I did last night. Are you going to VMworld? If not, please supply me with your shipping address so I can ship these great prizes to you. Some of the prizes I'm picking up from a couple of the authors at VMworld, so I won't be shipping it until I get back from VMworld. Again, congrats, enjoy these awesome prizes.
See the video of the drawing here: http://vdestination.com/2010/08/27/we-have-a-winner/
I'm honestly floored! I never win anything (though I said this last year when winning an iPod Touch @ VMworld), but this is truly something useful, and I hope that I can make the best use of it by expanding my knowledge, finally getting my VCP and working towards VCDX, and continuing to be an evangelist for VMware virtualization.
In case you're interested, here's my submission to the contest:
After virtualizing nearly everything in our environment over the past 4 years, there hasn’t been a lot of time to go back and revisit what we could have done better/differently. By re-educating myself, I hope to improve my environment even more, by optimizing administrative tasks with automation and PowerCLI, building reporting workflows, as well as sharing with my fellow co-workers bringing them up to speed on virtualization. Everybody has a different way of doing things, and the little bit of Scott’s book that I have read has helped me tremendously. I hope to develop some standards around how we build and manage our environment, based on the extensive knowledge of these guru’s!
Thanks again to everyone involved, and to all of you who donated something to the contest. I promise to truly make the best use out of all of it that I can.
-Nick