Chapter 13. Solaris Zones

Objectives

The following test objectives for exam 310-202 are covered in this chapter:

Explain consolidation issues, features of Solaris zones, and decipher between the different zone concepts, including zone types, daemons, networking, command scope and, given a scenario, create a Solaris zone.

• This chapter helps you understand the components of the new zones feature, first introduced in Solaris 10. It describes the zone concepts and how they fit into the overall container structure.

Given a zone configuration scenario, identify zone components and zonecfg resource parameters, allocate file system space, use the zonecfg command, describe the interactive configuration of a zone, and view the zone configuration file.

• This chapter explains the different components of a zone and how to carry out zone configuration. It also displays the zone configuration and the mechanism to verify that a zone has been configured correctly.

Given a scenario, use the zoneadm command to view, install, boot, halt, reboot, and delete a zone.

• In this chapter, we create a zone. We'll see how to install zones, check the status of installed zones, boot and reboot, as well as uninstall and remove zones. We also show how zones are viewed from a global zone.