How to Install Solaris 11 Kernel Zones - Lesson 1 Prereqs and Configuration

After a brief introduction, Certified Expert Mick Hosegood will present (with demonstrations) the hardware and software requirements for Solaris 11 Kernel Zones. This is lesson 1 of a 4 lesson tutorial. See all lessons, FREE, at http://www.skillbuilders.com/how-to-i.... Zones are an integrated part of the Solaris operating system which is owned and developed by Oracle. Both Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 support zones which up till now have been very lightweight virtual machines using the same kernel as is running on the host system known as the global zone. These are also sometimes referred to as containers. However, since Solaris 11.2, kernel zones have been available which allows you to run independent versions of the operating system with their own kernel within the global zone. This is the first time this has been possible, so you can maintain zones at different software level, different patch level, if you like, along with other facilities such as the ability to suspend and resume them perhaps on the same or different machine so you can migrate kernel zones, assuming you can allocate shared storage between systems.