Oracle Solaris zones provide an application execution environment in which processes are isolated from the rest of the system within a single instance of the Oracle 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.
Oracle Solaris zones are ideal for environments that place several applications on a single server. For more information, see Introduction to Oracle Solaris Zones .