Sun Solaris gets new partitioning feature

Sun Microsystems has updated its Solaris operating system with a feature that lets its newest Sparc-based servers run multiple copies of the Unix variant in separate partitions.

The feature, called Logical Domains, or LDoms, is in Solaris 11/06, the company plans to announce Tuesday. As reported, the feature catches Sun partway up with Unix server rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, and augments a technology that lets administrators divide a single copy of Solaris into several separate "containers."

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