As shown in the example of FIG. 3A, an installation 300 includes a load balancer (LB) 310 to assign tasks and/or manage access among a plurality of vAs 320, 322, 324. In some examples, the example vA 320 executes the example catalog 130, the example repository 134, the example application director 106, the example cloud manager 138, etc. Each vA 320-324 is a deployed VM 114, and the vA 320 communicates with a plurality of component or host servers 330, 332, 334, 336 which store components for execution by users (e.g., Web server 210A with Web components, App server 210B with application components, DB server 210C with database components, etc.). In some examples, the example component server 330, 332, 334, 336 executes the example distributed Execution Manager(s) 146A. Additionally or alternatively, the example component server 330, 332, 334, 336 may perform any functionality that is performed by the vA 320 such as, the example catalog 130, the example repository 134, the example application director 106, the example cloud manager 138, etc. Performing functionality that would have been performed by the vA 320 at the component server 330, 332, 334, 336 enables processing loads that would otherwise be concentrated at a VM 114 hosting the vA 320 to be distributed to a different VM.
