Share Your Story

Help the VCF community learn from your experiences

Share Your VCF Story

Have you solved an interesting VCF challenge? Deployed VCF in a unique environment? Learned something valuable that could help other VCF professionals? We’d love to hear about it!

Why Share Your Story?

  • Help the Community - Your experience could solve someone else’s problem
  • Build Your Profile - Get recognition for your expertise and solutions
  • Learn from Others - Share knowledge and get feedback from peers
  • Document Your Success - Create a record of your achievements

What We’re Looking For

Real-World Solutions

  • Deployment Stories - How you implemented VCF in your environment
  • Problem Solving - Challenges you faced and how you overcame them
  • Performance Wins - Optimizations that made a real difference
  • Automation Successes - Scripts, workflows, or tools you created
  • Migration Experiences - Moving from other platforms to VCF
  • Security Implementations - How you secured your VCF environment

Technical Insights

  • Best Practices - What worked well in your environment
  • Lessons Learned - What you’d do differently next time
  • Tool Recommendations - Products or scripts that helped you
  • Troubleshooting Wins - How you solved tricky problems

How to Submit Your Story

Option 1: Email Submission

Send your story to Chris@VCFInsider.com with:

Subject Line: “VCF Story: [Brief Description]”

Include:

  • Your name and title (optional - can be anonymous)
  • Company/Organization (optional)
  • Brief background about your VCF experience
  • Your story (500-2000 words works well)
  • Any screenshots, diagrams, or code snippets
  • What you learned or what others can learn from your experience

Option 2: Story Template

Use this structure to organize your submission:

**The Challenge:**
What problem were you trying to solve?

**The Environment:**
Brief description of your setup (size, complexity, etc.)

**The Solution:**
What you did to solve it

**The Results:**
What happened? What worked? What didn't?

**Key Takeaways:**
What would you do differently? What advice do you have?

**Resources:**
Scripts, tools, documentation that helped

What Happens Next?

  1. Review - We’ll read your submission and may ask clarifying questions
  2. Edit - We’ll help polish your story for publication
  3. Publish - Your story goes live on VCF Insider
  4. Credit - You get full credit as the author (or anonymous if preferred)
  5. Promotion - We’ll share it on social media and in our community

Story Examples

Here are the types of stories we love to publish:

  • “How We Migrated 500 VMs from vSphere to VCF in 30 Days”
  • “Automating VCF Workload Placement with PowerCLI”
  • “Solving NSX-T Edge Node Failures in Our VCF Environment”
  • “Building a Custom Dashboard for VCF Health Monitoring”
  • “Lessons Learned from Our First VCF Security Hardening”

Privacy & Anonymity

  • Full Credit - We’ll include your name, title, and company
  • Anonymous - We can publish without identifying information
  • Partial Credit - Just your name, no company details
  • Your Choice - You decide how much to share

Questions?

Have questions about submitting your story? Want to discuss an idea before writing? Just email Chris@VCFInsider.com - we’re happy to help!

Your experiences matter. Share them and help the VCF community grow stronger together.