Supported Hardware

Supported on specified hardware. See link to OTN site or HCL.

Supported on all Oracle Solaris 11.2 systems. See HCL.

Memory Management

A fixed amount of physical RAM must be allocated to the solaris-kz virtual platform.

Can share the physical RAM allocated to the global zone.

Kernel Version

A kernel zone can run a different kernel version or SRU level than the host.

Kernel version must be the same as that of the global zone.

Storage and Device Management

Performs all storage access. Kernel zones do not support zpool or rootzpool resources.

Storage can be made available at the file system level though the fs, zpool, and dataset zonecfg resources.

Networking

Only exclusive-IP zones are supported.

Exclusive-IP and shared-IP zones are supported.