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Creating a Solaris Zone on ZFS

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The following is a simple example of creating a ZFS filesystem and using it to hold a newly-created Solaris Zone (Solaris Container)

Solaris Zone status and Configuration

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This article describes how to display the Solaris Zone Status and Configuration from the global zone.

Solaris non-global Zone States

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This article simply provides a zone state flow chart and a table listing the state of non-global zones under Solaris.

Migrating a Solaris 11 Kernel Zone

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You can migrate a kernel zone to another host by using the zoneadm command. For zone migrations, a zone configuration must be portable across machines.

Cloning a Solaris zone

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The beauty of zones under Solaris for me is the ability to clone any zone and then easily adapt it for it's new resources and function.

ZFS Zones

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If the filesystem is created in the global zone and added to the local zone via zonecfg, it may be assigned to more than one zone

An introduction to Solaris Zones

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This post is an introduction to the new virtual technology introduced from Sun Microsystems, namely Solaris Zones (not containers)