In the simplest deployment topology, the management cluster which supports the vCloud Director components runs in a single site. The following figure shows a single data center within which resides a Management vCenter Server and its Management resource cluster which together host the components of a vCloud Director instance.

 

Although the tenant workload vCenter Server and associated resource cluster run on separate hardware to that of the management cluster, the two workloads are contained inside the vCloud Director instance in the figure to illustrate that they are managed by the surrounding vCloud Director.