An architect is tasked to plan for an upgrade of an existing vSphere-only deployment utilizing...

Upgrading avSphere + vSAN environmentto a fullVMware Cloud Foundation deploymentrequires introducing the components that make up theintegrated software-defined data center (SDDC):

A. NSX– Provides network virtualization, overlay segments, distributed firewalling, and routing required in VCF.

B. SDDC Manager– Thecore management and lifecycle automation toolof VCF, responsible for bring-up, patching, and upgrades.

E. vSphere Supervisor– Required to enableVMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG)and modern application deployment in VCF environments.

Why not the others?

C. VCF Identity Broker– Provides federated authentication but isnot mandatory for initial upgrade. It is optional depending on identity requirements.

D. VCF Operations– This is VMware Aria Operations (for monitoring/analytics). While strongly recommended, it isnot requiredto upgrade from vSphere/vSAN to VCF.