Tag: vsan
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100 Lab Tasks for the VCP-VVF Support Exam (2V0-18.25)
Every objective in exam 2V0-18.25 is troubleshooting vSphere Foundation 9.0, from a failed deployment to a workflow that will not run. 100 lab tasks that ask you to create each fault and then diagnose it, mapped to all nine objectives.
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138 Lab Tasks for the VCP-VVF Administrator Exam (2V0-16.25)
Exam 2V0-16.25 tests whether you can deploy, configure and run VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0: vSphere, vSAN, encryption and content libraries, then the Supervisor, VCF Operations and VCF Operations for logs. 138 hands-on lab tasks mapped to every objective.
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163 Lab Tasks for the VCP-VCF Support Exam (2V0-15.25)
Every objective in exam 2V0-15.25 is troubleshooting, from a failed VCF 9.0 deployment to a stuck HCX migration. 163 lab tasks that ask you to create each fault and then diagnose it, mapped to all eleven objectives.
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165 Lab Tasks for the VCP-VCF Administrator Exam (2V0-17.25)
Exam 2V0-17.25 tests whether you can deploy, configure and run VCF 9.0: compute, storage and networking fundamentals, then VCF deployment, fleet management, VCF Operations and VCF Automation. 165 hands-on lab tasks mapped to every objective.
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214 Hands-On Tasks for the VCAP VCF Support Exam (3V0-13.26)
The mirror of the Administrator exam: every objective sits under Troubleshoot and Optimise and nothing else. A workbook of 214 tasks across compute, storage, Automation, VKS, Operations and NSX, built on creating the fault before you diagnose it.
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214 Hands-On Tasks for the VCAP VCF Storage Exam (3V0-23.25)
The broadest of the advanced VCF exams: thirty-four objectives, no sub-objectives, and every one of the five blueprint sections filled. A workbook of 214 tasks across vSAN architecture, design, build and troubleshooting.
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262 Hands-On Lab Tasks for the VCAP-VCF Administrator Exam (3V0-11.26)
Every objective in exam 3V0-11.26 is an administration objective. A workbook of 262 hands-on tasks in build order, each one linked to its steps, prerequisites and a diagram.
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VCF 9.x Pre-Installation Checklist: What to Verify Before You Start the VCF Installer
A pre-check list for a fresh VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x management domain deployment (9.0 and 9.1), with the command to run for each item plus MTU-per-traffic and password requirement tables.
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VCF 9 Stretched Clusters and Multi-Site Design: Topology, Witness and the Latency Budget (VCF 9 Series, Part 30)
A reference design for stretching VMware Cloud Foundation 9 across two sites: vSAN site awareness, witness placement, the 5ms latency budget, storage policy, and when a single stretched instance beats multi-instance federation.
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Bringing Existing vSAN and NSX Under VCF 9: The Brownfield Import Requirements (VCF 9 Series, Part 14)
The VCF 9 import workflow brings an existing vCenter, vSAN and NSX in as a workload domain, but it switches on the Distributed Firewall and trips over ELM, standard switches and baselines. Here is what actually breaks in the field and how to get ahead of it.
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vSAN ESA vs OSA in VCF 9: Storage Design and When to Choose Which (VCF 9 Series, Part 6)
vSAN ESA vs OSA in VCF 9: single-tier all-NVMe versus two-tier disk groups, the resilience math, the lowered hardware minimums, and a clear verdict on which to choose.
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VCF 9 Licensing Explained: Core Counting, the vSAN TiB Entitlement and 5 Costly Mistakes (VCF 9 Series, Part 3)
VCF 9 licensing looks simple but bites at design time: the 16-core-per-CPU floor, the 1 TiB-per-core vSAN entitlement, and the move of production load balancing to Avi. Five mistakes, with the numbers behind each.
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