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| Title | Unix Tip: Zones in Solaris 10 |
| Type | Tip |
| Source | ITworld.com 05/31/2006 |
| Summary | Without a doubt, one of the most interesting features of Solaris 10 is its ability to establish numerous virtual systems on a single Solaris box -- a concept known as "zones". This radically innovative new release of Solaris gives us the ability to create these isolated operating environments (virtual "instances" of Solaris) and to assign them to various projects or groups of users as if they were completely separate computers with separate file systems, users and applications. In the process of setting up a zone, we might allocate some system resources -- CPUs, memory and other devices -- to the exclusive use of a particular zone or have all zones share most system resources. While there are some "clues" -- some ways that a savvy user might detect that he is working in a zone and not on a dedicated computer, the differences are subtle and the experience of working in a zone parallels in all important ways the experience of working on any Solaris system. continue  |
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