Using Solaris Zones

Solaris zones provide an application execution environment in which processes are isolated from the rest of the system within a single instance of the Solaris OS. This isolation prevents processes that are running in one zone from monitoring or affecting processes that are running in other zones. Even a process running with superuser capabilities cannot view or affect activity in other zones.

Solaris zones are ideal for environments that place several applications on a single server. For more information, see Part II, Zones, in System Administration Guide: Virtualization Using the Solaris Operating System.