Solaris™ Containers: Overview

Solaris™ Containers—Sun's operating system virtualization technique—consists of several technologies that work together to foster improved resource management and isolate the environment from the underlying OS. With Solaris Containers, organizations can determine how to allocate resources among applications and services, and ensure they do not interfere with one another.

This guide uses an example in which an organization wants to consolidate three applications—an email server application and two Web servers—onto a single server with four CPUs.