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 -- Jeff Savit Principal Engineer Sun Microsystems, Inc. Phone: 732-537-3451 (x63451) 400 Atrium Drive Email: jeff.savit at sun.com Somerset, NJ 08873 http://blogs.sun.com/jsavit/
