1. Creating and Using Oracle Solaris Zones
  2. Before You Begin Working With Oracle Solaris Zones
  3. Planning a Non-Global Zone Configuration
  4. Hardware Requirements

Hardware Requirements

Zones use the following hardware resources:

  • Disk space

    Disk space requirements for a zone depend on two factors:

    • Packages you intend to install on the zone.

    • Available disk space on the host after the installation of the standard Oracle Solaris OS packages.

    Calculate at a minimum 1GB of disk space to allocate to each zone that you plan to install.

  • Amount of memory

    As an option, consider adding 40 MB of system memory for each zone to be configured. Disk space resources on the host is a factor in configuring swap space. If you configure sufficient swap space on the host system, then additional memory might not be necessary.