In VMware Cloud Foundation, which component is responsible for scaling and managing the deployment of NSX Edge clusters?

Question

Options

• ASDDC Manager
• BNSX Manager
• CvCenter Server
• DAria Operations

• A
  93% (28)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  3% (1)

Explanation

SDDC Manager is the correct answer because it serves as the central orchestration plane for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), handling lifecycle management tasks including the automated deployment, scaling, and configuration of NSX Edge clusters as part of workload domain operations.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B. NSX Manager handles NSX configuration and policy management (routing, firewall rules, segments), but it does not orchestrate the infrastructure-level deployment of Edge clusters - that coordination flows through SDDC Manager.
• C. vCenter Server manages compute virtualization (VMs, hosts, clusters) but has no role in provisioning or scaling NSX Edge infrastructure.
• D. Aria Operations is a monitoring and analytics tool focused on performance visibility and capacity planning, not deployment orchestration.

Memory tip: Think of SDDC Manager as the "foreman" of the entire VCF construction site - it tells every other component (NSX, vCenter, etc.) what to build and when. If a question asks who deploys or scales something at the infrastructure level in VCF, the answer is almost always SDDC Manager.

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