2V0-18.25 study notes

• VVF 9.0 troubleshooting: which tool for which fault

  Where to start with a VVF fault: the VCF Installer, VCF Operations features, or a component's own tools.

• VVF 9.0 log locations: where each component keeps its logs

  Where to find logs for ESX, vCenter, the VCF Installer and the VCF Operations products.

• VVF 9.0: converge, upgrade or deploy new?

  How the starting state of an existing vSphere environment decides the path to VVF 9.0.

• VVF 9.0 licences: evaluation mode and expiry

  What evaluation mode allows, what happens when a licence expires, and how recovery works.

• ESX host connection states in vCenter

  What Connected, Not Responding and Disconnected mean, and what each means for running VMs.

• Reading vSphere HA agent states

  What each vSphere HA agent state says about a host, and what it means for failover.

• vSAN stretched clusters: what happens when a site, link or witness fails

  Which objects stay available after each single failure in a vSAN stretched cluster.

• APD and PDL: telling the two storage faults apart

  How to tell All Paths Down from Permanent Device Loss on ESX, and what each does to VMs.

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