Zone Brand Overview
Differences between solaris-kz zones and
solaris and solaris10 brand zones are
shown below.
Table 1-1 Comparison of Oracle Solaris Zone Brand Features
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Supported Hardware
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Supported on specified hardware. See link to OTN site or
HCL.
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Supported on all Oracle Solaris 11.2 systems. See HCL.
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Memory Management
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A fixed amount of physical RAM must be allocated to the
solaris-kz virtual platform.
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Can share the physical RAM allocated to the global zone.
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Kernel Version
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A kernel zone can run a different kernel version or SRU level
than the host.
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Kernel version must be the same as that of the global
zone.
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Storage and Device Management
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Performs all storage access. Kernel zones do not support
zpool or rootzpool
resources.
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Storage can be made available at the file system level though
the fs, zpool, and
dataset
zonecfg resources.
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Networking
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Only exclusive-IP zones are supported.
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Exclusive-IP and shared-IP zones are supported.
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