Solaris Zones is a software partitioning technology, which provides a means of virtualizing operating system services to create an isolated environment for running applications. This isolation prevents processes that are running in one zone from monitoring or affecting processes running in other zones.

You can configure non-global zones with a shared-IP address or an exclusive-IP address. The shared-IP zone shares a network interface with global-zone and the exclusive-IP zone does not share network interface with global-zone.

See the System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers--Resource Management and Solaris Zones Solaris operating environment document.

Oracle provides regular updates and patches for the Oracle Zones feature. Contact Oracle for more information.