3V0-24.25 Exam Dumps : Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 vSphere Kubernetes Service

VCF 9.0 describes Supervisor networking with NSX as a model whereNSX provides network connectivity to Supervisor control plane VMs, services, and workloads, and where the Supervisor can use either the NSX Load Balancer or the Avi Load Balancer. In the NSX + Avi design, the documentation identifies theAvi Load Balancer Controlleras a core infrastructure element: the Controller “interacts with vCenter to automate the load balancing for the VKS clusters,” and is responsible for provisioning and coordinating Service Engines and exposing operational interfaces.

Also, the Supervisor itself is anchored by theSupervisor control plane virtual machines. VCF 9.0 explains you deploy the Supervisor with one or three control plane VMs, and in a three-zone Supervisor the control plane VMs are distributed across zones for high availability.

Finally, because the requirement explicitly calls for a unified networking/security model throughNSX, theNSX Manager virtual machineis foundational to the NSX-based Supervisor design, as shown in the documented architecture and component descriptions for NSX-backed Supervisor deployments.

VCF 9.0 positions VKS clusters as Kubernetes-native environments where platform teams install and manage “standard packages” and add-ons. In VCF Automation’s VKS overview, VMware states that a set of packages is automatically included with a VKS cluster, includingkapp-controllerandsecret-gen controller. These components are part of theCarveltoolchain used for packaging and deploying applications/configuration in a Kubernetes-friendly, declarative way.

In addition, the VCF 9.0 CLI “package” workflows explicitly supportytt overlaysduring package installation/updates (for example, --ytt-overlay-file and --ytt-overlays), which are configuration mechanisms associated with Carvel-based packaging workflows.

Helmis the other widely used Kubernetes package manager for installing and configuring applications through charts and values, and is commonly used by DevOps teams on Kubernetes clusters such as VKS for app deployment and configuration management. By contrast, Fluent Bit is a log shipper, Multus is a CNI multiplexer, and Grafana is a visualization tool—none are package management tools.

VCF 9.0 describes VKS as providing self-service, declarative lifecycle management for Kubernetes clusters and explicitly identifiesCluster APIas the mechanism that enables Kubernetes-style lifecycle automation. The documentation states that “The Cluster API provides declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs for cluster creation, configuration, and management,” and that its inputs include resources describing “the virtual machines that make up the cluster” plus “cluster add-ons.” This directly maps to automated lifecycle management: a desired-state YAML is reconciled by controllers that create, update, and maintain the control plane and worker node resources without manual, imperative procedures.

The same VCF 9.0 content also notes VKS exposes “three layers of controllers” for lifecycle management and lists Cluster API as one of those layers, reinforcing that Cluster API is foundational for ongoing cluster operations (create, scale, upgrade, reconcile). Contour is an ingress controller (traffic routing), kubeadm is a Kubernetes bootstrap tool (not the VKS lifecycle controller framework), and Grafana is observability/visualization (not cluster lifecycle).