When EMAX is installed in an environment, it connects to all the business critical resources, including physical servers, operating systems, hypervisors, virtual workloads, and applications. Because EMAX has visibility across a wide variety of components, it can exert automated management more intelligently than other products, acting as a centralized management point across all business critical assets. This unique capability allows true Quality of Service (QoS) independent of the platform (physical or virtual), enabling enterprises to use best practices for efficient resource allocation without concern for the underlying hardware.

EMAX policies can also take into consideration rules that may apply when a virtual machine is subject to a XenMotion enforced by DRM. These rules can ensure that certain virtual machines are always hosted on the same XenServer, or ensure that they never reside on the same host. Application performance and high availability are some of the considerations for implementing affinity rules.