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Zones are in Solaris Express (Solaris 10)

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-want-my-processes-in-the-danger-zone dept.

snoofy writes "Zones, as people from SUN Microsystems have talked about for some time are now available in solaris express (the pre-release of Solaris 10). This will let you virtualize Solaris so that processes run in isolation from other activity on the system... A system can then be configured to run several zones which will make it look like different systems on the network Some info from a posting to comp.unix.solaris. The cool stuff is that it works on both SPARC and x86."

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  1. The neatest benefit by ArmenTanzarian · · Score: 4, Funny

    Network security will now be called "Zone Defense."
    What does that make man-to-man? P2P?

  2. bah by tuffy · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's clearly just a shameless ploy to gain market share.

    :)

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  3. Re:UML honeypot? what does Fowler's book have here by raider_red · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess the smartass answer is to say that Unified Modeling Language is a honeypot for trapping managers.

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  4. Re:But... does "rebooting" a zone fix issues? by Spoing · · Score: 1, Funny
    1. What makes zones so important in large systems is the ability to restart one, or totally reconfigure it, without taking down the other zones.

    This "rebooting" that you speak of...tell me more...it is forign to me.

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  5. Sun Discovers LPARs... by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 3, Funny

    IBM said to be reeling after this 30-year late counterpuch. News at eleven.

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  6. Sun is still toast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This new feature ought to be called a "twilight zone".