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Solaris Zones Management

Solaris Zones servers use zones to run applications in isolated environments to make it appear as if they are running on physically separate computers. Each zone on a server takes its resources from a resource pool and includes virtual network interfaces, file systems, memory, and other dedicated units.

This section describes the management operations that you can perform on Solaris Zones resources from the Resources page. The Resources page lets you view basic information and details about the following objects:

Click Resources, open the Explore pane, and select one of the resources; then click Summary for the resource. The Summary page lets you view information associated with the resource (for example, zones, resource pools, and disks on a Solaris Zones server or network interfaces and projects on a zone) and events associated with the resource.

Note: If you select alert as Normal using the Configuration button in the Usage panel, the zone is shown in the normal state (in green) even if the CPU or memory is in the critical or warning state. Similarly, if you select alert as warning, the zone is always shows in the warning state.

The components tree displays only those resource pools that are used by a zone. Inactive resource pools are not listed in this panel.

The Details page lets you view other detailed resource information, such as system properties, software, hardware, performance, and so on.

Other pages may be available to perform resource management tasks. Right-click menus on the Explore pane also let you perform management and policy tasks.