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PowerMaxOS 5978 runs on the Dynamic Virtual Matrix leveraging its scale-out flexibility of cores, cache, and host interfaces. The embedded storage hypervisor reduces external hardware and networking requirements, delivers high levels of availability, and dramatically reduces latency. Hypervisor upgrades are performed non-disruptively.
Within the PowerMax Hypervisor, virtual machines (VMs) provide the host platform that includes CPU processing, memory, network interface card (NIC), ports, data storage by using a Cut-Through Device (CTD), and external network through the Management Module Control Station (MMCS). VMs run within the front-end FA emulation.
The following figure shows the primary components of the PowerMax and Hypervisor.