An administrator is reviewing the architecture of a newly deployed VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.2 environment. They need to explain to a new team member which component is singularly responsible for orchestrating the deployment of all other management components like vCenter, NSX Manager, and Aria Suite Lifecycle during the initial bring-up process. Which component fulfills this role?
A financial services company is performing a pre-deployment validation for a new VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 instance. The security team mandates that all management components must have fully resolvable names for both forward (A record) and reverse (PTR record) DNS lookups before any deployment begins. Which VCF component's deployment will fail first if this requirement is not met?
During a security audit, an administrator is required to rotate all service account passwords for the components within the VCF Management Domain. Which tool or interface provides a centralized and automated workflow for this task in a VCF 5.2 environment?
A VCF administrator is using the `sos` command-line tool on the SDDC Manager appliance to troubleshoot a failed workflow. The administrator needs to collect logs specifically related to the domain management tasks. Which `sos` option should be used to gather the most relevant log bundle for this purpose?
A cloud architect is designing a stretched cluster for a new VI Workload Domain in VCF 5.2 to provide high availability across two physical sites. Which TWO components are essential prerequisites that must be configured and available before SDDC Manager can orchestrate the deployment of a stretched cluster? (Select TWO).
True or False: In a standard VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 deployment, the SDDC Manager is responsible for deploying and managing the lifecycle of the VMware Aria Suite products (e.g., Aria Operations, Aria Automation) directly.
**Case Study:** Global Tech Inc., a multinational corporation, has deployed VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 for their primary data center. The environment consists of a management domain and two VI workload domains (WLD1 for production and WLD2 for development). The security team has recently enforced a new policy requiring all SSL/TLS certificates for infrastructure components to be replaced with certificates signed by their internal Certificate Authority (CA) within the next 30 days. The VCF administrator has successfully generated Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) for all components, including vCenter, NSX, and SDDC Manager, using the automated tools within SDDC Manager. The internal CA has returned the signed certificates along with the full chain of trust (intermediate and root CA certificates). The administrator is now planning the installation phase and is concerned about the correct sequence and potential service impact. The primary requirement is to replace the certificates with minimal disruption and ensure that all components maintain trust with each other post-replacement. The administrator must follow the VCF-prescribed best practices for this operation. Which approach should the administrator take to install the new CA-signed certificates across the VCF environment?
A VCF administrator notices that a vSphere cluster in a VI Workload Domain is not performing optimally. DRS is not migrating VMs effectively to balance the load. Upon investigation, the administrator finds that the cluster's health status in Skyline Health for VCF is showing a critical alert related to 'vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) VM health'. What is the most likely cause of the degraded DRS functionality?
A consultant is planning the physical network infrastructure for a new VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 deployment. To ensure successful deployment and operation, a specific MTU size is recommended for all switches and uplinks handling VCF traffic, especially for the NSX overlay. What is the minimum recommended MTU size?
A VCF administrator needs to apply an urgent, out-of-band security patch for NSX that is not yet available through the standard SDDC Manager lifecycle management update bundles. VMware Support has provided the patch and instructions to use the VMware Async Patch Tool. What is the primary purpose of this tool?