OpenSolaris Zones Community
This community is the home base for the Zones community: Users, application developers, folks who want to contribute to the zones infrastructure itself, and those developing management solutions.

Solaris Containers: Consolidating Servers and Applications (How-To Guide)
This short practical guide describes the features of Solaris Containers and explains how to consolidate applications with this technology.

Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery on a System With Zones Installed
This article discusses various methods for backing up zone configurations and data on a system running the Solaris OS.

Join the Zones Discussion
Join the discussion forums to talk about Zones.

Solaris Zones: Operating System Support for Consolidating Commercial Workloads (pdf - 236K)
From Proceedings of the 18th Large Installation Systems Administration Conference (USENIX LISA '04).

Solaris Zones (Solaris Containers) - Sun Expert Exchange Transcript (Feb. 17, 2005)
The session transcript in the Sun Expert Exchange series to explore the what, why, and how of new features in the Solaris 10 OS that covered Solaris Zones (Solaris Containers) available in PDF.

Spotlight on Solaris Zones Feature (Sept. 7, 2004)
Check out this BigAdmin feature article on Zones.

Solaris Zones: Operating System Support for Server Consolidation (pdf)
Paper published at the USENIX VM '04 Symposium (pdf).

Introducing Zones Newsgroup Posting
Check out this detailed posting on using Zones in the 'comp.unix.solaris' newsgroup.

Solaris Containers Learning Center (01/2008)
The Solaris Containers Learning Center provides links to Solaris Container resources, such as multimedia presentations and demos, how-to guides, and more.

Solaris Containers for Linux Applications (01/2008)
Sun web site for Solaris Containers for Linux Applications.

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New Zones Features (09/2007)
New Features in Solaris 10 8/07 that Enhance Containers

Step 1 to Solaris Containers - Creating Containers (10/2007)
A blog that provides an example of the steps for creating a Solaris Container

Step-by-Step Zone Configuration in the Solaris 10 OS (08/2007)
This community-submitted tech tip provides a procedure and a script for configuring and installing zones on the Solaris 10 OS.

How to Move Solaris Containers (08/2007)
This How-to guide on sun.com instructs users, system administrators, and developers who have experience with the Solaris 10 OS on proper use of new features which allow a container to be moved from one computer to another.

Solaris Zones Examples (04/2007)
This page contains a few examples for the configuration of Solaris 10 Zones. Currently with a focus on Resource Controls. brendangregg.com.

OpenSolaris Zones Presentation (pdf) (11/2006)
Presentation on Zones and OpenSolaris given at ApacheCon US 2006. Authors: Narayana Janga and Shivani Khosa.

Application and Database Server Consolidation on the Sun Fire X4600 Server Using Solaris Containers (pdf)
This Sun BluePrints article explores the use of this powerful virtualization technology to consolidate multiple databases and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition application servers onto a single Sun Fire X4600 server.

The Sun BluePrints Guide to Solaris Containers: Virtualization in the Solaris Operating System (pdf) (10/2006)
This "mini-book" provides an overview of the resource management concepts and technologies that comprise Solaris Containers. Document explains how to create, use, and integrate this technology within a system and infrastructure. Detailed examples are provided.

Solaris Containers Datasheet

White Paper: Solaris Containers - Server Virtualization and Manageability (pdf)

Solaris Containers Technology Architecture Guide (pdf) (BluePrints)

Working with Solaris Containers and the Solaris Service Manager (pdf) (BluePrints)

Get in the Zone with Solaris 10 (Feb. 26, 2004)
Check out this detailed article on using Zones by Dennis Clarke of blastwave.org.