Architectural Overview
The typical public cloud architecture consists of management components that are usually deployed in the management cluster, and of resource groups for hosting the tenant workloads. Some of the reasons for the separation include:
• Different SLAs (availability, recoverability, performance) for management components and for tenant workloads
• Separation of duties (resource groups are managed by vCloud Director)
• Consistent management and scaling of resource groups
Figure 7. Management Components
The management cluster runs the cloud management components and resource group management components.
Note Some management components (such as VMware NSX Controller™ cluster nodes) must be deployed to the resource groups.
Resource groups are independent infrastructure domains represented by virtualized compute, networking, and storage, each managed by its own vCenter Server.
