About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Virtualization Solutions

Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Virtualization Solutions includes support for non-global and Branded zones, and Solaris Logical Domains.

Solaris Zones, also known as non-global zones is an operating system-level virtualization technology, which provides a means of virtualizing operating system services to create an isolated environment for running applications. Non-global zones function as completely isolated virtual servers with a single operating system instance.

Branded zones are an extension of the Solaris Zone infrastructure. A Branded zone is a non-native zone that allows individual zones to emulate an operating system environment other than the native environment of the global operating system.

Solaris Logical Domains (LDoms) is a virtualization technology on the Solaris SPARC platform that enables the creation of independent virtual machine environments on the same physical system. LDoms are a virtualized computing environment abstracted from all physical devices, which allow you to consolidate and centrally manage your workloads on one system. The logical domains can be specified roles such as a Control domain, Service domain, I/O domain , and Guest domain. Each domain is a full virtual machine where the operating systems can be started, stopped, and rebooted independently.