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VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support)

Standardize your team on VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support) with a structured VMware training path — team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Core skills
$250
Exam fee (VMware)
IT operations team at help desk workstations with ticket queues and network diagrams
Difficulty
Difficulty: 3 of 5 (Moderate)
Moderate
Exam fee (VMware)
$250
Courses on path
1
Official source
VMware’s official exam page
Exam code
  • 2V0-18.25

Exam datasheet

Format
Multiple Choice, Multiple Choice Multiple Selection
Prerequisites
No official prerequisites
Recommended experience
A minimum of 1 year experience supporting and troubleshooting VMware vSphere Foundation components, either in isolation or as part of a VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) Deployment/Instance. In addition at least 2 years of overall IT experience
Recertification
3 years
Testing center

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$250

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support) path takes 2V0-18.25.

  1. 2V0-18.25VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 Support (VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support, VCP-VVF Support)
    Exam fee
    $250
    Exam length
    135 minutes
    Questions
    60
    Passing score
    300

    Exam blueprint: 2V0-18.25

Skills your team builds

Troubleshooting a VMware vSphere Foundation deploymentTroubleshooting a VVF upgradeTroubleshooting VVF clustersTroubleshooting license managementTroubleshooting computeTroubleshooting storageTroubleshooting networksTroubleshooting VCF Operations and VCF Operations Orchestrator

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support) path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    VMware VCP-VVF Support (2V0-18.25)

    Virtualization incidents rarely stay in one layer. A failed upgrade, an unreachable datastore, or a licensing error can span compute, storage, networking, and operations tooling, and teams that troubleshoot in silos take longer to restore service. This intermediate course gives IT Directors a shared VVF 9 support baseline across the team. Built for virtualization administrators and support engineers who already work with ESX, vCenter, and vSAN, the course walks through V8-to-VVF 9 upgrades, VCF Installer behavior, NFS, iSCSI, and vSAN deployment, cluster management, licensing, compute, and networking troubleshooting. Practitioners learn to validate storage paths early with tools like `vmkping`, activate VCF Ops logging (not deployed by default in VVF), and use the VCF Ops Orchestrator to schedule workflows and inspect failed tasks. At about 9.9 hours per learner, it fits a focused enablement sprint ahead of a platform upgrade or a **2V0-18.25** certification push. Training Managers can use Team Reporting and Playlists to assign the troubleshooting sequence and track completion.

    Keith Barker
    92 videos10h
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Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Per-team completion reporting

VMware career ladder

Where VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support) sits in your team's VMware progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Professional level

    4 certs

    Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

    2V0-21.23

    Network Virtualization (VCP-NV)

    2V0-41.24

    VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator (VCP-VVF Admin)

    2V0-16.25

    VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support)

    2V0-18.25

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Customer outcome

Build 2V0-18.25 capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support) course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished — the view leadership uses to see VMware skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make 2V0-18.25 a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on 2V0-18.25 gives leadership a clear picture of VMware skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support)

Exam
  • 2V0-18.25

Frequently asked questions about VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support) training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support) training for their team.

How does VCP-VVF Support fit into our internal compliance and governance program?

IT leaders often cite VCP-VVF Support when documenting that the engineers who troubleshoot vSphere Foundation infrastructure hold a validated VMware credential. CBT Nuggets team reporting adds per-learner progress, completion records and completion exports that can serve as training evidence. The auditor's control crosswalk decides how the credential maps to any formal framework requirement.

Who on the team should hold VCP-VVF Support, and what can a certified team own?

The credential fits support engineers and virtualization administrators who are accountable for keeping VMware vSphere Foundation environments running and for resolving escalations. The linked course prepares them to troubleshoot VVF compute, networking, clusters and licensing, along with NFS, iSCSI and vSAN storage. It also covers the VCF Installer, upgrades from vSphere 8 to VVF 9, and diagnosis with VCF Operations.

What does CBT Nuggets VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support) training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support) courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to VMware's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support) training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support) courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on VCP-VVF Support?

The linked CBT Nuggets training totals about 10 hours of video. The overall time to certify depends on each engineer's starting point with vSphere Foundation and on how much troubleshooting experience the team already has. Training Managers can assign the course and use team reporting to follow completion before engineers schedule the 2V0-18.25 exam.

What if VMware updates the VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support) exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates VMware course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When VMware restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

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Build VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support) capability across your team

See how CBT Nuggets helps IT leaders plan and track VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere Foundation Support (VCP-VVF Support) training across the team — reporting included.

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