Valid VMware 2V0-18.25 Dumps (V8.02) – Achieve VMware Certified Professional – VMware vSphere Foundation Support Certification Success in 2026

1. A VVF administrator is troubleshooting high latency on a vSAN datastore.

Which of the following VCF Operations metrics would be most useful to investigate the vSAN performance? (Choose two.)

2. When running a complex workflow in VCF Operations Orchestrator to automate VVF workload cluster scaling, the workflow hangs indefinitely at a specific scriptable task.

What is the recommended first step to troubleshoot the hanging task?

3. True or False: VCF Operations Observability Workbench can automatically detect anomalous behavior in your VVF environment by establishing dynamic baselines for metrics.

4. During the import of an existing vSphere environment into a VVF 9.0 instance, the validation fails.

What are valid reasons for a cluster import validation to fail? (Choose two.)

5. In a VVF 9.0 vSAN cluster, you notice that several objects are marked as "Reduced Availability with no rebuild - delay timer."

What does this status indicate?

6. True or False: During the initial VVF 9.0 deployment, the Cloud Builder appliance can be safely powered off once the ESXi hosts are successfully imaged before the SDDC Manager is deployed.

7. 1.You are troubleshooting the initial deployment of a VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.0 solution. The deployment fails during the ESXi host bring-up phase.

Which log file should you primarily investigate to identify the root cause?

8. A VVF administrator is unable to access an NFS datastore from a newly added ESXi host. The datastore is accessible from all other hosts in the cluster.

Which of the following is the most likely cause?

9. You are troubleshooting a VVF cluster configuration issue where DRS is failing to migrate virtual machines to balance the load.

What is a common cause for this?

10. A customer reports that a specific feature within VCF Operations is disabled. Upon investigation, you suspect a licensing issue.

Which components' licenses should be verified? (Choose two.)

11. A VVF engineer needs to troubleshoot an issue using VCF Operations for logs. The engineer wants to extract a specific error code from unstructured log messages to create a new dashboard widget.

Which feature should they use?

12. You are creating a custom dashboard in VCF Operations to monitor the health of your VVF infrastructure. You want to display an alert if a datastore's latency exceeds 15ms.

Which components do you need to configure to achieve this? (Choose two.)

13. You are configuring a vSAN Stretched Cluster in a VVF environment. The secondary site loses network connectivity to the primary site, but the witness appliance is still reachable by both sites.

What happens to the virtual machines?

14. An ESXi host in a VVF cluster becomes unresponsive, and virtual machines are not automatically restarting on other hosts. You suspect an issue with vSphere HA.

Which log file on the primary HA host should you review?

15. You are requested by Broadcom Support to gather diagnostic data for a VVF workload domain issue.

How can you automate the collection and upload of log bundles directly to support?

16. You are troubleshooting a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) issue in VVF where virtual machines on different hosts cannot communicate with each other, but VMs on the same host can.

What is the most likely cause?

17. You are troubleshooting the removal of an ESXi host from a VVF workload cluster. The task fails.

Which of the following conditions would prevent the successful removal of a host? (Choose two.)

18. When reviewing a failed workflow run in VCF Operations Orchestrator, you notice the execution state is "Canceled."

What does this indicate?

19. A VVF license administrator is auditing entitlements. They notice that the VVF license key applied does not unlock a specific advanced feature they expected to use.

What is the best method to troubleshoot VVF license entitlements?

20. True or False: In a VVF environment using Fibre Channel (FC) storage, if an ESXi host loses connectivity to one of its two FC HBAs, the virtual machines on that host will immediately lose access to the datastore.

21. An administrator is configuring VCF Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) to receive syslog data from VVF ESXi hosts. The logs are not appearing in the dashboard.

Which of the following ports must be open on the firewall for secure syslog traffic?

22. Users report slow application performance in a VVF environment. Upon investigating the virtual machine in vCenter, you notice high CPU Ready (%RDY) times.

What is the most appropriate action to troubleshoot and resolve this?

23. You are attempting to scale a VVF Workload Cluster by adding two new ESXi hosts. The task fails in the SDDC Manager interface.

Upon checking the prerequisites, which of the following could be the cause of the failure? (Choose two.)

24. A network administrator configured a new VLAN on the physical Top of Rack (ToR) switches. However, VMs attached to a VDS port group using this VLAN in VVF cannot communicate on the network.

What is the most likely cause?

25. A VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) administrator is troubleshooting a failed workload cluster creation. The error indicates a failure during the NSX Edge cluster deployment.

Which prerequisite might have been missed?

26. You are asked to create a report in VCF Operations that details the capacity utilization of all VVF workload clusters.

Which component do you need to configure first before generating the report?

27. True or False: When importing an existing vSphere cluster into VVF 9.0, the cluster must use a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) for its networking; vSphere Standard Switches (VSS) are not supported for the final VVF cluster state.

28. You are troubleshooting an issue where an ESXi host in a VVF cluster frequently disconnects from the vCenter Server. You suspect a network heartbeat issue.

Which component is responsible for communicating with the vCenter Server?

29. A VVF 9.0 license is about to expire in 5 days.

What will happen to the running virtual machines in the workload domains once the license expires?

30. A customer is attempting to convert an existing vSphere environment to a VVF 9.0 deployment. The conversion process stops, stating that the current vCenter Server configuration is unsupported.

What is a common reason for this failure?

31. You need to troubleshoot a complex performance issue across multiple VVF clusters using VCF Operations (formerly vRealize Operations).

Which tool within VCF Operations allows you to correlate metrics and logs side-by-side to find the root cause?

32. When troubleshooting license assignment in VVF 9.0, where is the centralized location to manage and apply licenses for the VVF infrastructure components?

33. While troubleshooting a vSAN environment in VVF, you need to verify the health of the physical disk drives backing the capacity tier.

Which vCenter Server interface provides this specific hardware health information?

34. When troubleshooting vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) network traffic in VVF, you want to monitor traffic between two VMs on the same host without using external hardware.

Which feature should you configure?

35. An automated workflow in VCF Operations Orchestrator (formerly vRealize Orchestrator) fails to provision a new VM. In which tab of the Orchestrator client would you look to see the exact step where the workflow failed and the associated error messages?

36. During the VVF 9.0 bring-up process, the validation phase fails because the NTP servers are unreachable.

How should this be addressed?

37. True or False: When converting an existing vSphere environment to a VVF 9.0 deployment, all existing vSphere Standard Switches (VSS) are automatically converted to vSphere Distributed Switches (VDS) without any network disruption or manual prerequisite checks.

38. While investigating network dropouts in a VVF environment, you decide to check the health of the VDS.

Which features of vSphere Network Health Check can assist you? (Choose two.)

39. You are troubleshooting the upgrade of a VVF environment. The SDDC Manager pre-check fails for a specific workload domain.

What common issues could cause this pre-check failure? (Choose two.)

40. A custom workflow in VCF Operations Orchestrator interacts with a third-party REST API but keeps failing with authentication errors.

What are the best ways to troubleshoot this? (Choose two.)