A financial services company is planning a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment and must adhere to strict regulatory compliance standards that mandate physical separation of management and compute workloads. The initial deployment will consist of 8 identical ESXi hosts. Which VCF architectural model must be selected to meet this requirement, and what is the minimum number of hosts required for the management domain?
During a VCF bring-up process using the Cloud Builder UI, the validation phase fails with an error related to NTP server reachability from the ESXi hosts. The network administrator has confirmed that firewall rules are open on port 123 UDP between the ESXi management VLAN and the corporate NTP servers. What is the most likely cause of this validation failure?
An administrator needs to enable vSphere with Tanzu on a new VI workload domain. The design requires that all Kubernetes control plane VMs, pods, and services use non-routable, private IP address spaces managed by NSX-T. Which IP address ranges must be defined in the SDDC Manager UI during the vSphere with Tanzu enablement wizard to meet this requirement? (Select THREE)
A VCF architect is designing a solution for a retail company with two data centers in the same metropolitan area, with round-trip latency of 3ms. The primary business requirement is to provide automated workload failover between sites with zero data loss (RPO=0) for a tier-1 application. The solution must be managed within the VCF framework. Which VCF feature should be implemented to meet these requirements?
A VCF administrator is performing a pre-upgrade check for a scheduled maintenance window. The SDDC Manager UI reports that the upgrade bundle cannot be applied because of a hardware compatibility issue with a NIC driver on two hosts in the cluster. The administrator has verified that the correct, VCF-compliant driver is available in the vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) depot. What is the most direct method to resolve this issue and proceed with the upgrade?
An organization wants to use its existing enterprise Certificate Authority (CA), which is based on Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), to issue certificates for a new VCF environment. Which authentication type must be configured on the AD CS server to allow integration with SDDC Manager for certificate signing requests?
A new administrator joins a team managing a large VCF environment. They need to collect a comprehensive set of logs from SDDC Manager, vCenter, and the NSX Managers for a specific workload domain to send to VMware support. Which command-line utility should they use on the SDDC Manager appliance to perform this task?
True or False: In a VMware Cloud Foundation Standard Architecture, the NSX Manager cluster deployed in the management domain can be shared with a new VI workload domain to manage its networking and security services.
An administrator needs to decommission a host from a vSAN-enabled VI workload domain in SDDC Manager. What is the state of the host immediately after the 'Decommission Host' workflow completes successfully?
A DevOps team is deploying stateful applications on a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster within a VCF environment. They need to ensure that their Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) are provisioned on high-performance storage. The VCF administrator has created a vSAN storage policy named 'Gold-Tier' that uses RAID-1 mirroring and has a high object space reservation. How can the administrator make this storage profile available to the DevOps team for their PVCs?