General Zones Concepts

For additional information not in this guide, also refer to the System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones. That book provides a complete overview of Solaris Zones and branded zones.

You should be familiar with the following zones and resource management concepts, which are discussed in the guide:

• Supported and unsupported features

• Resource controls that enable the administrator to control how applications use available system resources

• Commands used to configure, install, and administer zones, primarily zonecfg, zoneadm, and zlogin

• The global zone and the non-global zone

• The whole-root non-global zone model

• The global administrator and the zone administrator

• The zone state model

• The zone isolation characteristics

• Privileges

• Networking

• Zone IP types, exclusive-IP and shared-IP

• The Solaris Container concept, which is the use of resource management features, such as resource pools, with zones

• The fair share scheduler (FSS), a scheduling class that enables you to allocate CPU time based on shares

• The resource capping daemon (rcapd), which can be used from the global zone to control resident set size (RSS) usage of branded zones