Architecting a vCloud Availability for vCloud Director Solution : vCloud Availability Management Components : 4.13 Management Component Resiliency Considerations
   
4.13 Management Component Resiliency Considerations
The following table summarizes the high availability concept for each solution component that can be used to fulfill the requirements of SLAs.
Table 12. Management Component Resiliency
Management Component
HA Enabled?
Additional Availability
vCloud Director Cells
Yes
Load balancing, Active - Active
Cloud Proxies
Yes
Load balancing, Active - Active
vCloud Availability Portal
Yes
Load balancing, Active - Active
Platform Services Controller nodes
Yes
Distributed
vCloud Director Database
Yes
AlwaysOn SQL, Oracle RAC
vCloud NFS Transfer Share
Yes
Storage array provided
vSphere Replication Cloud Service
Yes
Active – Active
RabbitMQ
Yes
Application clustering, queue mirroring, load balancing
Cassandra
Yes
Application clustering, Active - Active
Resource vCenter Server nodes
Yes
 
Resource NSX Manager instances
Yes
 
vSphere Replication Manager instances
Yes
 
vSphere Replication Manager databases
Yes
AlwaysOn SQL, Oracle RAC
vSphere Replication Servers
Yes
Active – Active (manual failover)
Active Directory servers
Yes
Application replication
vCloud Usage Meter
Yes
 
vCloud Availability for vCloud Director Metering VM
Yes
 
vRealize Orchestrator Server nodes
Yes
Load balancing, Active - Passive
vRealize Orchestrator database
Yes
AlwaysOn SQL, Oracle RAC
VMware vRealize Operations Manager™ servers
Yes
Application clustering