FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Linux Containers (LXC)

Consolidate with Oracle Linux Containers
Linux Containers are available as BETA for Oracle Linux with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel only for
testing and demonstration purposes.
Linux Containers (LXC) allow running multiple isolated Linux instances (containers) on the same host.
A container is a way to isolate a group of processes from the others on a running Linux system. By
making use of existing functionality like the Linux kernel's new resource management and resource
isolation features (Cgroups and name spaces), these processes can have their own private view of the
operating system with its own process ID (PID) space, file system structure and network interfaces.
Containers share the same kernel with anything else that is running on it, but can be constrained to only
use a defined amount of resources such as CPU, memory or I/O. By combining containers with other
features like the Btrfs file system or the Open vSwitch, it will be possible to quickly set up multiple
lightweight isolated Linux instances with their own virtual network segment on a single host.

Features

Benefits

Lightweight and resource-friendly

Enables running multiple instances of an operating

system or application on a single host, without
inducing overhead on CPU and memory. This saves
both rack space and power.
Safely and securely run multiple applications on a
single system without the risk of them interfering with
each other. If security of one container has been
compromised, the other containers are unaffected.
Since both Oracle Linux 5 and Oracle Linux 6
support the same version of the Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel, Linux containers can be used to
consolidate Oracle Linux 5 installations on a single
Oracle Linux 6 instance running the Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel
Containers can be useful to quickly set up a
sandbox environment, e.g. to test a new version of
a Linux distribution or to simulate a clean
environment for testing/QA purposes. When using
the Btrfs file system for a container repository, new
instances can be cloned and spawned in seconds,
without requiring significant additional disk space.

Comprehensive process and resource isolation

Run multiple versions of an operating system on a

single server

Rapid and Easy deployment

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