Solaris Containers

Solaris Containers (including Solaris Zones) is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization technology for x86 and SPARC systems, first released publicly in February 2004 in build 51 beta of Solaris 10, and subsequently in the first full release of Solaris 10, 2005. It is present in illumos (formerly OpenSolaris) distributions, such as OpenIndiana, SmartOS, Tribblix and OmniOS, as well as in the official Oracle Solaris 11 release.

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Sun Microsystems
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Sun Microsystems
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enSolaris Containers (including Solaris Zones) is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization technology for x86 and SPARC systems, first released publicly in February 2004 in build 51 beta of Solaris 10, and subsequently in the first full release of Solaris 10, 2005. It is present in illumos (formerly OpenSolaris) distributions, such as OpenIndiana, SmartOS, Tribblix and OmniOS, as well as in the official Oracle Solaris 11 release.
Computing platform
SPARC
X86
Developer
enillumos and Oracle
Developer
Illumos
Oracle Corporation
Genre
Operating system-level virtualization
Genre
Operating system-level virtualization
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enSolaris Containers (including Solaris Zones) is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization technology for x86 and SPARC systems, first released publicly in February 2004 in build 51 beta of Solaris 10, and subsequently in the first full release of Solaris 10, 2005. It is present in illumos (formerly OpenSolaris) distributions, such as OpenIndiana, SmartOS, Tribblix and OmniOS, as well as in the official Oracle Solaris 11 release. A Solaris Container is the combination of system resource controls and the boundary separation provided by zones. Zones act as completely isolated virtual servers within a single operating system instance. By consolidating multiple sets of application services onto one system and by placing each into isolated virtual server containers, system administrators can reduce cost and provide most of the same protections of separate machines on a single machine.
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Implementation
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Solaris Containers
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enCDDL, Proprietary
License
Common Development and Distribution License
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blogs.oracle.com/jeffv
www.securitybulletins.com/mediawiki/index.php/Moving_Solaris_10_Zones
www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/o11-092-s11-zones-intro-524494.html
docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E29024/toc.html
blogs.oracle.com/zoneszone
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Category:Sun Microsystems software
Category:Virtualization software
CentOS
Common Development and Distribution License
Comparison of platform virtualization software
Fair-share scheduling
Hardware-assisted virtualization
Host bus adapter
Illumos
Least privilege
Man pages
OpenIndiana
OpenSolaris
Operating system-level virtualization
Oracle Corporation
Process (computing)
SmartOS
Solaris (operating system)
Solaris 10
Solaris Trusted Extensions
SPARC
Sun4us
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Syscall
Thread (computer science)
Total cost of ownership
Virtual machine
X86
ZFS
Name
enSolaris Zones
Name
enSolaris Zones
OperatingSystem
Solaris (operating system)
Operating system
Solaris (operating system)
Platform
SPARC
X86
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enC
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BLYP
Container (Solaris)
Kontenery Solarisa
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Q1128477
Solaris Containers
Solaris Containers
Solariskontainere
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Category:Sun Microsystems software
Category:Virtualization software
Title
enSolaris Zones
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