Notes:

• Zones act much like Xen or KVM in that the global zone must be up and running for the local zones to be available. A Solaris 10 zone will share most of the OS with the global zone. This allows for density.
• Branded zones allow running Solaris 8 or 9 within a Solaris 10 global zone. This is only available on SPARC hardware (due to limitation of Solaris 8 & 9 to run on x86 hardware)
• LDoms are managed by the hypervisor within system firmware. So domains can be booted without affecting other domains (even the primary domain).