The process described in the previous section established a full, bidirectional association between two sites. If the Cloud Provider wants to include additional member sites in the association, the new sites must be associated with the existing member sites. For predictable operation, VMware recommends that all members are associated with each other within the association. This enables the organization associations discussed in the following sections to be established between any combinations of sites within the group. Associating a third site with the two sites illustrated earlier results in six unidirectional associations as shown in the following figure.