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Operating Systems Solaris solaris zones vs container.. Post 302546933 by dude2cool on Friday 12th of August 2011 01:56:06 PM
Old 08-12-2011
Solaris Zones , you have a single copy of the OS that is shared between the various instances. You can have some isolation on patches, with "full zone" deployments. But in the end all the zones share the same copy of the kernel. You can do resource allocations/control between the zones. They are good for development/test/uat environments. If you have a hardware issue, you would have to take outage on all zones. So in summary zones are software isolation, they look isolated because the OS provides that view.

Containers are the opposite, they can be compared in some respects to vmware. They have a control domain and run off the hypervisor. You can failover containers from one to another, online failover..etc. They are better suited to production kind environment. They are getting better and better, because oracle now wants a share of the virtualization pie and wants to compete with Vmware and Microsoft.
 

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zoneadmd(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      zoneadmd(1M)

NAME
zoneadmd - zone administration daemon SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/zones/zoneadmd DESCRIPTION
zoneadmd is a system daemon that is started when the system needs to manage a particular zone. Because each instance of the zoneadmd daemon manages a particular zone, it is not unexpected to see multiple zoneadmd daemons running. This daemon is started automatically by the zone management software and should not be invoked directly. The daemon shuts down automati- cally when no longer in use. It does not constitute a programming interface, but is classified as a private interface. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWzoneu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Private | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
svcs(1), zlogin(1), svcadm(1M), zoneadm(1M), attributes(5), smf(5), zones(5) NOTES
The zones(5) service is managed by the service management facility, smf(5), under the service identifier: svc:/system/zones:default Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(1M). The ser- vice's status can be queried using the svcs(1) command. SunOS 5.11 1 Nov 2004 zoneadmd(1M)
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