High availability of vCloud Director management components is achieved through the presence of multiple redundant “cells”, each of which requires connectivity to a backend database, message bus, and other components. These components are typically installed on a “management” vSphere cluster, under the control of a separate VMware vCenter Server® dedicated solely to management workloads. Cloud Providers can deploy these management workloads on infrastructure in one or more locations. Examples are described briefly in the following sections.