diff --git a/build/build-cloud-plugins.xml b/build/build-cloud-plugins.xml
index dcadb93184a..61b0e624901 100755
--- a/build/build-cloud-plugins.xml
+++ b/build/build-cloud-plugins.xml
@@ -279,8 +279,8 @@
 
   <!-- ===================== Network Elements ===================== -->
 
-  <target name="compile-network-elements" depends="compile-netscaler, compile-f5, compile-srx, compile-ovs" description="Compile all network elements"/>
-  <target name="build-network-elements" depends="build-netscaler, build-f5, build-srx, build-ovs" description="build all network elements"/>
+  <target name="compile-network-elements" depends="compile-netscaler, compile-f5, compile-srx, compile-ovs, compile-elb" description="Compile all network elements"/>
+  <target name="build-network-elements" depends="build-netscaler, build-f5, build-srx, build-ovs, build-elb" description="build all network elements"/>
  
   <target name="compile-netscaler" depends="-init, compile-server" description="Compile NetScaler plugin">
   	<ant antfile="${base.dir}/plugins/network-elements/netscaler/build.xml" target="build"/>
@@ -302,6 +302,11 @@
   </target>
   <target name="build-ovs" depends="compile-ovs"/>
 
+  <target name="compile-elb" depends="-init, compile-server" description="Compile ELB plugin">
+  	<ant antfile="${base.dir}/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/build.xml" target="build"/>
+  </target>
+  <target name="build-elb" depends="compile-elb"/>
+
 
   <!-- ===================== File Systems ===================== -->
 
diff --git a/client/tomcatconf/components.xml.in b/client/tomcatconf/components.xml.in
index e4e062a27f3..f36355d4ff3 100755
--- a/client/tomcatconf/components.xml.in
+++ b/client/tomcatconf/components.xml.in
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@
         </adapters>
         <manager name="VmwareManager" key="com.cloud.hypervisor.vmware.manager.VmwareManager" class="com.cloud.hypervisor.vmware.manager.VmwareManagerImpl"/>
         <manager name="OvsTunnelManager" key="com.cloud.network.ovs.OvsTunnelManager" class="com.cloud.network.ovs.OvsTunnelManagerImpl"/>
+        <manager name="ElasticLoadBalancerManager" key="com.cloud.network.lb.ElasticLoadBalancerManager" class="com.cloud.network.lb.ElasticLoadBalancerManagerImpl"/>
         <pluggableservice name="VirtualRouterElementService" key="com.cloud.network.element.VirtualRouterElementService" class="com.cloud.network.element.VirtualRouterElement"/>
         <pluggableservice name="NetscalerExternalLoadBalancerElementService" key="com.cloud.network.element.NetscalerLoadBalancerElementService" class="com.cloud.network.element.NetscalerElement"/>
         <pluggableservice name="F5ExternalLoadBalancerElementService" key="com.cloud.network.element.F5ExternalLoadBalancerElementService" class="com.cloud.network.element.F5ExternalLoadBalancerElement"/>
@@ -172,6 +173,7 @@
         <dao name="NetappVolume" class="com.cloud.netapp.dao.VolumeDaoImpl" singleton="false"/>
         <dao name="NetappLun" class="com.cloud.netapp.dao.LunDaoImpl" singleton="false"/>
         <manager name="NetappManager" key="com.cloud.netapp.NetappManager" class="com.cloud.netapp.NetappManagerImpl"/>
+        <dao name="ElasticLbVmMapDao" class="com.cloud.network.lb.dao.ElasticLbVmMapDaoImpl" singleton="false"/>
     </management-server>
 
     <configuration-server class="com.cloud.server.ConfigurationServerImpl">
diff --git a/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/.classpath b/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/.classpath
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a3f5d12a4c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/.classpath
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+	<classpathentry kind="src" path="src"/>
+        <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
+	<classpathentry combineaccessrules="false" kind="src" path="/api"/>
+	<classpathentry combineaccessrules="false" kind="src" path="/core"/>
+	<classpathentry combineaccessrules="false" kind="src" path="/server"/>
+	<classpathentry combineaccessrules="false" kind="src" path="/utils"/>
+	<classpathentry combineaccessrules="false" kind="src" path="/deps"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="output" path="bin"/>
+</classpath>
diff --git a/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/.project b/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/.project
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6165661a650
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/.project
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+	<name>elastic-loadbalancer</name>
+	<comment></comment>
+	<projects>
+	</projects>
+	<buildSpec>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+	</buildSpec>
+	<natures>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
+	</natures>
+</projectDescription>
diff --git a/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/build.xml b/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/build.xml
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..66e42cedbd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/build.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+
+<project name="Cloud Stack ELB network element" default="help" basedir=".">
+  <description>
+		Cloud Stack ant build file
+    </description>
+
+  <dirname property="elb.base.dir" file="${ant.file.Cloud Stack ELB network element}/"/>
+  <!-- This directory must be set -->
+  <property name="top.dir" location="${elb.base.dir}/../../.."/>
+  <property name="build.dir" location="${top.dir}/build"/>
+	
+	<echo message="build.dir=${build.dir}; top.dir=${top.dir}; elb.base.dir=${elb.base.dir}"/>
+
+  <!-- Import anything that the user wants to set-->
+  <!-- Import properties files and environment variables here -->
+
+  <property environment="env" />
+
+  <condition property="build-cloud.properties.file" value="${build.dir}/override/build-cloud.properties" else="${build.dir}/build-cloud.properties">
+    <available file="${build.dir}/override/build-cloud.properties" />
+  </condition>
+
+  <condition property="cloud.properties.file" value="${build.dir}/override/cloud.properties" else="${build.dir}/cloud.properties">
+    <available file="${build.dir}/override/cloud.properties" />
+  </condition>
+
+  <condition property="override.file" value="${build.dir}/override/replace.properties" else="${build.dir}/replace.properties">
+    <available file="${build.dir}/override/replace.properties" />
+  </condition>
+
+  <echo message="Using build parameters from ${build-cloud.properties.file}" />
+  <property file="${build-cloud.properties.file}" />
+
+  <echo message="Using company info from ${cloud.properties.file}" />
+  <property file="${cloud.properties.file}" />
+
+  <echo message="Using override file from ${override.file}" />
+  <property file="${override.file}" />
+
+  <property file="${build.dir}/build.number" />
+
+  <!-- In case these didn't get defined in the build-cloud.properties -->
+  <property name="branding.name" value="default" />
+  <property name="deprecation" value="off" />
+  <property name="target.compat.version" value="1.6" />
+  <property name="source.compat.version" value="1.6" />
+  <property name="debug" value="true" />
+  <property name="debuglevel" value="lines,source"/>
+
+  <echo message="target.dir=${target.dir}; top.dir=${top.dir}"/>
+  <!-- directories for build and distribution -->
+  <property name="target.dir" location="${top.dir}/target" />
+  <property name="classes.dir" location="${target.dir}/classes" />
+  <property name="jar.dir" location="${target.dir}/jar" />
+  <property name="dep.cache.dir" location="${target.dir}/dep-cache" />
+  <property name="build.log" location="${target.dir}/ant_verbose.txt" />
+
+  <property name="deps.dir" location="${top.dir}/deps" />
+  
+  <property name="cloud-plugin-elb.jar" value="cloud-plugin-elb.jar" />
+	
+  <import file="${build.dir}/build-common.xml"/>
+
+  <echo message="target.dir=${target.dir}; top.dir=${top.dir}"/>
+	
+  <!-- This section needs to be replaced by some kind of dependency library-->
+  <path id="deps.classpath">
+    <!--filelist files="${deps.classpath}" /-->
+    <fileset dir="${deps.dir}" erroronmissingdir="false">
+      <include name="*.jar" />
+    </fileset>
+  </path>
+	
+  <path id="cloudstack.classpath">
+  	<fileset dir="${jar.dir}">
+  	  <include name="*.jar"/>
+    </fileset>
+  </path>
+	
+  <path id="elb.classpath">
+	<path refid="deps.classpath"/>
+  	<path refid="cloudstack.classpath"/>
+  </path>
+	
+  <!-- This section needs to be replaced by some kind of dependency library-->
+
+  <target name="deploy-elb" >
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="init" description="Initialize binaries directory">
+  	<mkdir dir="${classes.dir}/${cloud-plugin-elb.jar}"/>
+  	<mkdir dir="${jar.dir}"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="compile-elb" depends="init" description="Compile ELB">
+    <compile-java jar.name="${cloud-plugin-elb.jar}" top.dir="${elb.base.dir}" classpath="elb.classpath" />
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="clean-elb">
+    <delete dir="${classes.dir}/${cloud-plugin-elb.jar}"/>
+  </target>
+	
+  <target name="build" depends="compile-elb"/>
+  <target name="clean" depends="clean-elb"/>
+
+  <target name="help" description="help">
+    <echo level="info" message="This is the build file for ELB network element plugin"/>
+    <echo level="info" message="You can do a build by doing ant build or clean by doing ant clean" />
+  </target>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/server/src/com/cloud/network/ElasticLbVmMapVO.java b/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/src/com/cloud/network/ElasticLbVmMapVO.java
similarity index 100%
rename from server/src/com/cloud/network/ElasticLbVmMapVO.java
rename to plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/src/com/cloud/network/ElasticLbVmMapVO.java
diff --git a/server/src/com/cloud/network/element/ElasticLoadBalancerElement.java b/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/src/com/cloud/network/element/ElasticLoadBalancerElement.java
similarity index 100%
rename from server/src/com/cloud/network/element/ElasticLoadBalancerElement.java
rename to plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/src/com/cloud/network/element/ElasticLoadBalancerElement.java
diff --git a/server/src/com/cloud/network/lb/ElasticLoadBalancerManager.java b/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/src/com/cloud/network/lb/ElasticLoadBalancerManager.java
similarity index 100%
rename from server/src/com/cloud/network/lb/ElasticLoadBalancerManager.java
rename to plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/src/com/cloud/network/lb/ElasticLoadBalancerManager.java
diff --git a/server/src/com/cloud/network/lb/ElasticLoadBalancerManagerImpl.java b/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/src/com/cloud/network/lb/ElasticLoadBalancerManagerImpl.java
similarity index 100%
rename from server/src/com/cloud/network/lb/ElasticLoadBalancerManagerImpl.java
rename to plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/src/com/cloud/network/lb/ElasticLoadBalancerManagerImpl.java
diff --git a/server/src/com/cloud/network/lb/dao/ElasticLbVmMapDao.java b/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/src/com/cloud/network/lb/dao/ElasticLbVmMapDao.java
similarity index 100%
rename from server/src/com/cloud/network/lb/dao/ElasticLbVmMapDao.java
rename to plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/src/com/cloud/network/lb/dao/ElasticLbVmMapDao.java
diff --git a/server/src/com/cloud/network/lb/dao/ElasticLbVmMapDaoImpl.java b/plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/src/com/cloud/network/lb/dao/ElasticLbVmMapDaoImpl.java
similarity index 100%
rename from server/src/com/cloud/network/lb/dao/ElasticLbVmMapDaoImpl.java
rename to plugins/network-elements/elastic-loadbalancer/src/com/cloud/network/lb/dao/ElasticLbVmMapDaoImpl.java
diff --git a/server/src/com/cloud/configuration/DefaultComponentLibrary.java b/server/src/com/cloud/configuration/DefaultComponentLibrary.java
index 821c6ed5205..f6db30bf7b7 100755
--- a/server/src/com/cloud/configuration/DefaultComponentLibrary.java
+++ b/server/src/com/cloud/configuration/DefaultComponentLibrary.java
@@ -100,9 +100,7 @@ import com.cloud.network.dao.VpnUserDaoImpl;
 import com.cloud.network.element.VirtualRouterElement;
 import com.cloud.network.element.VirtualRouterElementService;
 import com.cloud.network.firewall.FirewallManagerImpl;
-import com.cloud.network.lb.ElasticLoadBalancerManagerImpl;
 import com.cloud.network.lb.LoadBalancingRulesManagerImpl;
-import com.cloud.network.lb.dao.ElasticLbVmMapDaoImpl;
 import com.cloud.network.router.VirtualNetworkApplianceManagerImpl;
 import com.cloud.network.rules.RulesManagerImpl;
 import com.cloud.network.rules.dao.PortForwardingRulesDaoImpl;
@@ -296,7 +294,6 @@ public class DefaultComponentLibrary extends ComponentLibraryBase implements Com
         addDao("AgentTransferMapDao", HostTransferMapDaoImpl.class);
         addDao("ProjectDao", ProjectDaoImpl.class);
         addDao("InlineLoadBalancerNicMapDao", InlineLoadBalancerNicMapDaoImpl.class);
-        addDao("ElasticLbVmMap", ElasticLbVmMapDaoImpl.class);
         addDao("ProjectsAccountDao", ProjectAccountDaoImpl.class);
         addDao("ProjectInvitationDao", ProjectInvitationDaoImpl.class);
         addDao("IdentityDao", IdentityDaoImpl.class);
@@ -369,7 +366,6 @@ public class DefaultComponentLibrary extends ComponentLibraryBase implements Com
         ComponentInfo<? extends Manager> info = addManager("ConsoleProxyManager", ConsoleProxyManagerImpl.class);
         info.addParameter("consoleproxy.sslEnabled", "true");
         addManager("ProjectManager", ProjectManagerImpl.class);
-        addManager("ElasticLoadBalancerManager", ElasticLoadBalancerManagerImpl.class);
         addManager("SwiftManager", SwiftManagerImpl.class);
         addManager("StorageNetworkManager", StorageNetworkManagerImpl.class);
         addManager("ExternalLoadBalancerUsageManager", ExternalLoadBalancerUsageManagerImpl.class);
diff --git a/server/src/com/cloud/network/lb/LoadBalancingRulesManagerImpl.java b/server/src/com/cloud/network/lb/LoadBalancingRulesManagerImpl.java
index 17a8cdc6ad7..29d6f392391 100755
--- a/server/src/com/cloud/network/lb/LoadBalancingRulesManagerImpl.java
+++ b/server/src/com/cloud/network/lb/LoadBalancingRulesManagerImpl.java
@@ -151,8 +151,6 @@ public class LoadBalancingRulesManagerImpl<Type> implements LoadBalancingRulesMa
     @Inject
     FirewallManager _firewallMgr;
     @Inject
-    ElasticLoadBalancerManager _elbMgr;
-    @Inject
     NetworkDao _networkDao;
     @Inject
     FirewallRulesDao _firewallDao;
@@ -684,7 +682,9 @@ public class LoadBalancingRulesManagerImpl<Type> implements LoadBalancingRulesMa
             _firewallDao.remove(lb.getId());
         }
 
-        _elbMgr.handleDeleteLoadBalancerRule(lb, callerUserId, caller);
+        // FIXME: breaking the dependency on ELB manager. This breaks functionality of ELB using virtual router
+        // Bug CS-15411 opened to document this
+        //_elbMgr.handleDeleteLoadBalancerRule(lb, callerUserId, caller);
 
         if (success) {
             s_logger.debug("Load balancer with id " + lb.getId() + " is removed successfully");
@@ -726,7 +726,10 @@ public class LoadBalancingRulesManagerImpl<Type> implements LoadBalancingRulesMa
             _networkMgr.checkIpForService(ipAddressVo, Service.Lb);
         }
 
-        LoadBalancer result = _elbMgr.handleCreateLoadBalancerRule(lb, lbOwner, lb.getNetworkId());
+        // FIXME: breaking the dependency on ELB manager. This breaks functionality of ELB using virtual router
+        // Bug CS-15411 opened to document this
+        //LoadBalancer result = _elbMgr.handleCreateLoadBalancerRule(lb, lbOwner, lb.getNetworkId());
+        LoadBalancer result = null;
         if (result == null) {
             IpAddress ip = null;
             Network guestNetwork = _networkMgr.getNetwork(lb.getNetworkId());