VMware 2V0-16.25 - VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 Administrator

After successfully deploying theVCF Installer appliance, and ensuring ESXi hosts are powered on and meet prerequisites, thenext stepis to:

Launch the VCF Installer deployment wizard, which guides administrators through host onboarding, vCenter deployment, and cluster setup forvSphere Foundation.

Other options:

A. Enable SSH on all ESX hosts→ Not required unless troubleshooting.

C. Install SDDC Manager using VCF Installer→ Only applies to full Cloud Foundation, not vSphere Foundation deployment.

D. Manually deploy vCenter Server Appliance→ The Installer wizard automates this.

To ensure that only specific users can manage VMs in a specific VMware vCenter folder, the following three steps are required:

Create a new role in vCenter with VM management permissions(Answer B):You must define a custom role tailored to managing VMs, which includes permissions such as powering on/off VMs, editing VM settings, and accessing consoles. This role must include the appropriate privileges under the “Virtual machine” category in vCenter permissions.

Apply the role to the specific vCenter folder(Answer C):The custom role needs to be applied directly to the target vCenter folder. This enables scope-based access control, where permissions are applied only to VMs within that folder.

Assign the new role to the appropriate users/groups(Answer A):After creating the role and applying it to the folder, the role must be associated with the correct users or groups. This step uses the vCenter Server's identity source integration to assign roles.

Why the other options are incorrect:

D. Add the identity source to vCenter:This is a prerequisite step for any role assignment but is not directly required in this specific scenario if the identity source is already configured.

E. Create a datastore cluster:This is unrelated to managing VM access. Datastore clusters pertain to storage management and are not involved in user permissions or role assignments.

ThevSphere Foundation 9.0 licensing modelusesper-core licensing.

Current license covers1024 cores.

Existing hosts =960 cores, leaving64 cores licensed.

Adding a96-core host→ 32 cores exceed the license.

Result:

The new host runs inevaluation mode.

If not licensed after the evaluation period, the host isdisconnected from vCenter.

Other options:

A. Limited to 64 cores→ Not how VMware licensing enforcement works.

B. Limited to 64 cores until license upgrade→ Incorrect; VMware does not partially disable cores.

D. No issue→ Incorrect; licensing compliance will cause issues.

Aport groupon avSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)provides:

Logical grouping of virtual ports.

Definesnetwork policiessuch as VLAN IDs, traffic shaping, security policies, and teaming.

Used for segmenting traffic types (vMotion, vSAN, management, VM traffic).

Other options:

A. Enable vSAN connectivity→ Achieved by assigning vSAN traffic to a port group, but not the main definition.

B. Allocate CPU/memory resources→ Done via resource pools, not port groups.

D. Manage storage I/O performance→ Done with Storage I/O Control, not port groups.

VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) integrates VMware Aria Operations (vRealize Operations) for intelligent operations management, enabling automated reporting to minimize operational overhead. To meet the requirements for a weekly health status overview including cluster health, storage usage, and VM growth trends, an administrator must first create a custom View in Aria Operations to define the specific KPIs (e.g., cluster availability, datastore capacity, and VM count trends over time). This View is then added to a new Report Template, which compiles the data into a structured report format like PDF or CSV. Next, the scheduler in Aria Operations is configured to generate and email the report every Monday morning, ensuring delivery without manual intervention. This approach leverages built-in automation for recurring tasks, reducing effort compared to ad-hoc exports or manual configurations.

Other options do not fully satisfy the requirements: Option A creates a dashboard for interactive visualization but not a scheduled report; Option C uses a built-in report with limited customization and no direct FTP export or scheduling; Option E involves manual CSV exports from Metrics Explorer, increasing overhead and lacking automation.

For an8-node vSAN OSA cluster, the administrator needs a storage policy that:

Tolerates2 host failures, and

Providesmaximum usable capacity.

RAID-5/6 (erasure coding)is more capacity-efficient than RAID-1 mirroring.

To tolerate2 failures, the correct policy isRAID-5 with FTT=2.

RAID-1 (mirroring) would consume far more capacity, reducing usable space.

Other options:

A. 1 failure - RAID-1→ Only tolerates one failure.

C. 3 failures - RAID-1→ Provides higher resilience but uses much more capacity, not maximum efficiency.

D. 1 failure - RAID-5→ Tolerates only one failure.

ForvSAN ESA (Express Storage Architecture), minimum requirements differ from OSA:

25GbE NICsare required to handle high-performance traffic. (C)

NVMe PCIe flash devicesmust be used for storage. (D)

128GB Memory minimumper host is required. (F)

Other options:

A. 10GbE→ Only supported in vSAN OSA, not ESA.

B. 256GB Memory→ Recommended for large workloads, not minimum.

E. SAS SSDs→ Not supported in ESA; NVMe required.

The administrator wants toproactively manage performance degradationduring peak times without overwhelming the IT team.

The correct method is tocreate a custom alert with specific metric, threshold, and duration(A).

This ensures alerts are triggered only when sustained performance issues occur, reducing noise.

B. Default alert settings→ Too generic, may cause alert storms.

C. Custom dashboard→ Useful for visualization but not proactive alerting.

D. Notify during off-peak hours→ Defers the issue, not proactive.

To supportcontainerized workloads within VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF), the essential component isvSphere Kubernetes Service (vSphere with Tanzu).

Provides nativeKubernetes integrationwith vSphere clusters.

Enables runningPods, Tanzu Kubernetes clusters, and containerized workloadson vSphere infrastructure.

Other options:

VCF Automation (A):Automates VCF lifecycle but not containers.

VCF Fleet Manager (B):Manages multi-instance environments, not workload containers.

VCF Operations (C):Provides monitoring/analytics but not container runtime.