Hi Frank, You can start with Jeff Savit's BluePrints article at:
http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0807/820-3023.html The two server virtualization technologies discussed in this Sun BluePrints article ? Solaris Containers and Logical Domains ? are of particular importance because of the low overhead they impose on the host server platform. Cheers, Honglin Jeff Savit wrote: > Hi Frank, > > That's a very wide topic! Both are Sun forms of virtualization, but > there are very big differences: > > - Solaris Containers, aka zones, are a form of "OS virtualization" which > sets up private virtual environments within a single instance of Solaris > running on any computer capable of running Solaris 10, including PCs, > laptops, and of course, Sun's SPARC, AMD, and Intel-based servers. > > - Logical Domains are a virtualization technology that lets you have > multiple complete Solaris instances on the same T1 SPARC-based > "coolthreads" chip multithreading servers, each of which lives in its > own virtual machine and can be at different kernel versions. (Each of > these Solaris instances can also host multiple containers too) > > For a good overview of Sun virtualization see > http://www.sun.com/datacenter/consolidation/virtualization/ > > I hope this helps! > Jeff > > > On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 07:27 -0800, Frank Mancini wrote: >> can someone explain? >> -- >> This message was posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> ldoms-discuss mailing list >> ldoms-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss
