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”.

As with all Solaris-based products, Sun’s toolset is largely command-line based, which allows admins to script resource allocation and deployment tools. Creating Containers and Zones is a fairly ...

Oracle Solaris Zones has 15 times less overhead than a VMware implementation, Oracle asserted in its marketing literature. The company also touted that Zones had no artificial limitations set on ...

We are sure we won’t have to prompt you to tell us why not. In 2017, we thought we’d seen the end of Solaris, but apparently not. Maybe this will help those folks still on Solaris 9.