What's inside
2V0-17.25 doesn't test whether you can click through a wizard. It tests whether you know which VMware Cloud Foundation component, deployment model, tool or policy fits a requirement, and why.
This independent study guide for the VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator (VCP-VCF Administrator) exam distils what 2V0-17.25 expects you to understand into the comparisons, decisions and traps that VCF administration turns on. The exam is based on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, and so is this book, written from Broadcom's own 9.0 documentation.
Organised by technology
Twelve chapters, each readable on its own and together covering every exam objective:
- Architecture and deployment: the private cloud model, fleets, VCF Instances and domains, the VCF Installer, depots and binaries, convergence and importing an existing vCenter.
- The foundations: ESX, vCenter, vSphere HA and DRS, virtual machines, vSAN ESA and OSA, storage policies and resilience, NSX transport zones, Edge clusters, gateways, VPCs and transit gateways.
- Workload domains and Supervisor: network pools and host commissioning, creating and expanding workload domains, Supervisor networking, zones, namespaces and Supervisor Services.
- Manage the fleet: fleet management in VCF Operations, VCF Single Sign-On and the VCF Identity Broker, RBAC, licensing, certificates, passwords and lifecycle management.
- Operate and automate: VCF Operations deployment models, metrics, alerts, policies, views, reports and dashboards, VCF Operations for logs and for networks, and VCF Automation regions, organizations, networking, content and governance.
Inside
- Comparison tables for every close call, such as which deployment model, which vSAN architecture, which connectivity type or which persona fits a requirement.
- 120 Common trap callouts that name the choices that look right but aren't, including the many components VCF 9.0 renamed or replaced.
- 10 diagrams, from the VCF taxonomy and the installer workflow to vSAN ESA and OSA, VPC connectivity, Supervisor, the Identity Broker and VCF Operations deployment models.
- Key takeaways at the end of every chapter for fast revision.
- A glossary of 330+ terms, each linked to Broadcom TechDocs, with a free online version for print readers.
Understanding, not memorising
This book contains no exam questions. It explains the knowledge the exam expects, so you can answer questions you have never seen and apply the same judgement to a real VMware Cloud Foundation environment.
Written by Tony Rough, a cloud architect with more than twenty years in IT infrastructure, who holds VMware's VCP certifications in data centre and desktop virtualisation and the VCAP-DCD and VCAP-DCA advanced certifications.
Part of the Ultra Transcenders series from Distilled Press. An independent publication, not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Broadcom Inc. VMware and VMware Cloud Foundation are trademarks of Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
