VVF 9.0 Administrator Tests Picking the Right Feature, Policy and Console — Not vSphere 8 Habits
2V0-16.25 is for administrators running vSphere Foundation 9.0. Items read like tickets with host counts and requirements, so count hosts, check the networking stack and remember 9.0 changes such as vLCM images only.
Check Your Readiness →Most candidates understand VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 Administrator (2V0-16.25) concepts — and still fail. This exam tests how you apply knowledge under pressure.
Broadcom's guide has five sections, but only Sections 2 and 4 hold testable objectives, and no weights are published; the six rows split those two sections by topic. Sixty items in 135 minutes, many asking which feature, policy or console meets a stated requirement.
Apply a RAID-6 FTT=2 storage policy
RAID-6 FTT=2 needs at least six hosts, so five cannot satisfy it. Add a host or use RAID-1 FTT=2, which needs five; an extra host beyond the minimum is also recommended for rebuild capacity.
Edit each VM and add a vTPM device
Configure a key provider in vCenter first. The Native Key Provider needs no external KMS; a Standard Key Provider connects to an external KMS over KMIP, and a Trusted Key Provider relies on vSphere Trust Authority.
Edit the templates in each remote subscribed library
Publish a content library centrally and subscribe remote sites with download only when needed. Subscribed libraries are read-only, so changes are made in the published library and sync outward.
Search events in VCF Operations for Logs
Capacity forecasting and rightsizing use metric history in VCF Operations, formerly Aria Operations. VCF Operations for Logs serves log search, dashboards and root cause analysis from messages.
Change the default policy in VCF Operations
The default policy affects every object. Create a custom group for production with its own higher-priority policy, symptoms and alerts, and configure an outbound plugin such as SMTP or webhook if notifications must be delivered.
vSphere DRS balances placement with vMotion and never restarts VMs. vSphere HA restarts VMs after a host failure with a short outage. Fault Tolerance gives zero downtime but carries vCPU and resource limits.
ESA is a single-tier NVMe storage pool with no cache devices, makes RAID-5/6 perform like RAID-1, and sets compression through storage policy. OSA uses disk groups with one cache device whose capacity never adds to usable space.
vSphere Lifecycle Manager baselines are not supported in VVF 9.0; clusters are managed with a desired-state vLCM image. Answers built on vSphere 8 baseline remediation habits are distractors, however familiar they look.
Shares only matter under contention and set relative priority. A reservation guarantees capacity, and HA admission control, with cluster resource percentage as the default, reserves failover headroom; disabling it to power on more VMs removes restart capacity.
vSphere Pods need Supervisor with NSX networking. A Supervisor on VDS with a load balancer still runs vSphere Kubernetes Service clusters and the VM Service, which needs VM classes and a content library on the namespace.
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VVF 9.0 rewards matching the right feature to each requirement. Check your host-count and console instincts.