Solaris Containers: An Alternative to Type-1 Hypervisors

Using lightweight Solaris Containers rather than taking the hypervisor route enables Solaris OS users to deploy applications safely without having to install, license and manage multiple complete OS stacks, particularly when there is no need to support other OS types on a given server. This is the recommendation in Michael O'Connor's blog "Are You in the Zone?" An initial caution suggests the use of a qualification process to identify those applications that are unhappy running in a non-global zone. [...read more...]

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