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 ...

Solaris 10 supports x86, x64 and SPARC platforms. We tested Solaris 10 6/06 on Suns Sun Fire x4200 server powered by an Advanced Micro Devices Opteron processor and 7GB of RAM.

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.

Sun has had limited success in the past in creating ways for Linux or Windows to run their applications under Solaris, generally because these programs have taken a performance hit in the process ...