Frames
What turns one box into many
os over metal
No hypervisor at all — the Den runs straight on the OS.
proxmox cluster
The Manor — three nodes as one, with failover.
proxmox host
The Annex — the same hypervisor, standing alone.
incus manager
The Outpost — the deliberate exception, built for the disposable.
proxmox vswitch
The soft switch inside a host — virtual wiring between its rooms.
In a nutshell
A bare machine runs one operating system and does one thing. A frame turns that single box into many — carving its cores, memory, and disks into independent rooms that can be created, moved, and destroyed without touching the hardware. The enclave uses three approaches by design: a clustered hypervisor where rooms must survive a node failing, a standalone hypervisor where they don’t, and a container manager where rooms need to appear and vanish by the dozen. One house skips framing entirely and runs its services straight on the OS. Holding it all together is the private network that lets separate boxes behave as one. Which technique sits where, and why, is what this layer covers.