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As a zone is a light-weight VM created within a single instance of the Solaris Operating System, you can boot zone, login into zone, etc as if this is a separate computer. The original instance of Solaris is called a global zone. It always has the name global. The global zone run system-wide processes and is used for zone administrative control. A regular user of the global zone can be a root user of the zone and thus can boot the zone, add/delete users, etc. that’s a nice separation of duties in a large enterprise environment.

Solaris Zones can be maintained by System administrator with the help of minimal commands . Let us look at the commands which will help the Sys admins to face the day to day Zone administration.

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