Chapter 4. Zones
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Creating, administering, and using a virtual network in a zone
- Managing a zone using the resource manager
- Implementing a flow control
- Working with migrations from physical Oracle Solaris 10 hosts to Oracle Solaris 11 Zones
Introduction
Oracle Solaris 11 Zones is a great framework that virtualizes and consolidates a system environment where there are many applications and physical machines running Oracle Solaris. Using a rough comparison, Oracle Solaris 11 zone is similar to other virtualization options offered by VMware ESX, Linux LXC, and FreeBSD Jails but presents some important differences such as not allowing either to perform a hardware emulation or run any other kind of operating ...
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