Each Quorum onQ Appliance is a server class x86‑based computer running on a bare‑metal hypervisor for efficient automated virtualization.

The onQ Appliance typically contains several terabytes of redundant internal disk storage. This internal storage is used to efficiently store deduplicated snapshots of your protected nodes and to host the recovery nodes (RNs).

onQ is organized as a set of virtual machines. Each onQ Appliance runs several virtual machines (VMs): (1) potentially one virtual machine (RN) for each protected node; and (2) one VM to host the onQ Manager itself.

onQ builds the RNs from snapshots of your protected nodes and makes them available based on the RN’s build policy.