VCP-VCF case studies
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The VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation (VCP-VCF) is a professional-level credential published by Broadcom for practitioners who design, deploy, and operate a VMware Cloud Foundation private cloud. It is aimed at virtualization and cloud administrators, consultant and integration engineers, and support staff who work day to day with the software-defined data center stack - SDDC Manager, vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and the lifecycle management tooling that keeps those components aligned. Broadcom positions its VCP track as validation of job-ready skills rather than theoretical recall, so the exam tends to reward people who have personally performed a bring-up, built a workload domain, rotated credentials, replaced certificates, and driven an upgrade through its prechecks. Candidates typically prepare with three things in parallel: the official Broadcom/VMware documentation set for the current VCF release, a hands-on lab environment where they can break and rebuild things safely, and repeated practice with troubleshooting workflows such as log bundle collection and the SDDC Manager task and audit views. The VCP-VCF case studies are 5 cases and about 2,413 words.
1Management Domain Edge Placement and Rack HA
A customer runs VCF 5.0 with a four-host management domain. Each host has two 25 GbE NICs, 768 GB RAM, and 15 TB vSAN capacity.
538 words, about 3 min2Network Pool Sizing Before Host Expansion
A VCF 5.0 instance uses one network pool. Management is 10.20.10.0/24, vMotion is 10.20.20.0/28, vSAN is 10.20.30.0/28, and NSX TEP is 10.20.40.0/28.
493 words, about 2 min3Backup, Password Rotation, and Certificate Triage
SDDC Manager backups to an SFTP server have failed for six days with 'connection refused'. The network team changed the backup server's IP address, but DNS still resolves the old address.
451 words, about 2 min4Upgrade Path from 4.5.x to 5.0 with a Mixed Workload Domain
The SDDC Manager and management domain are at VCF 4.5.1 with ESXi 7.0 U3, vCenter 7.0 U3, and NSX-T 3.2.1. A workload domain was left at 4.5.0 with ESXi 7.0 U2, vCenter 7.0 U2, and NSX-T 3.1.3.
459 words, about 2 min5Workload Domain Creation Fails at NSX Edge Deployment
A new VI workload domain with four hosts is being created in VCF 5.0. Host commissioning and vCenter deployment succeed.
472 words, about 2 min