In a VMware Managed Service Provider environment, networking is managed from a number of points. Physical network infrastructure is managed per device, from a vendor supplied central management platform, or from a bespoke automation capability. Virtual network infrastructure is managed from one or more vCenter Server nodes, each responsible for the connectivity between the physical network and the virtual workloads. In a VMware Cloud Service Provider environment, vCloud Director abstracts some of the virtual network management tasks and network management then falls into the layers described in the following section.