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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). In PowerMaxOS 10 VMs run within the front-end OR emulation. In prior PowerMaxOS versions, VMs run within the front-end FA emulation.
In PowerMaxOS 10, a container-based microservices architecture is used for the embedded applications.
The following figure shows the primary components of the PowerMax and Hypervisor.