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About Solaris Zones and Containers

First many thanks to Joy's organization! She invited some engineers (Aijin Kim, Harry Fu) to give us (vendors, linguists, PMs) a demo to get familiar with this new technology. I am interested in since I began to do linguistic review on some translated documents. Some terms are really new and their corresponding Chinese couldn't be found on the internet. So here I made a summary, and hope it can help you get a basic understanding for it.

Solaris Zones: a separate, virtual Solaris environment within a Solaris instance.

Zone types:
Global (Default zone)
the only zone from which a non-global zone can be configured, installed, managed, or uninstalled.
provides a complete database that contains information about all installed components.
always uses the name global
Non-global
an installed subset of the complete Solaris Operating System software packages.
are not aware that any other zones exist

Solaris Containers can be built using one or more the following technologies:

Solaris Resource Manager, for workload resource management
Resource Pools, for partitioning
Zones, for isolation, security and virtualization
Solaris Container is not equivalent to a Solaris Zone.

Posted at 11:47AM Oct 25, 2007 by hannah in Sun  |  Comments[0]