It is present in illumos (formerly OpenSolaris) distributions, such as OpenIndiana, SmartOS, Tribblix and OmniOS, and in the official Oracle Solaris 11 release.
A Solaris Container is the combination of system resource controls and the boundary separation provided by zones.
Zones act as completely isolated virtual servers within a single operating system instance.
Later, there was a gradual move such that Solaris Containers specifically referred to non-global zones, with or without additional Resource Management.
The second category is implemented with interposition points within the OS kernel that can be used to change the behavior of syscalls, process loading, thread creation, and other elements.
For the 'lx' brand, libraries from Red Hat 3 or an equivalent distribution such as CentOS are required to complete the emulated environment.
The first published document and hands-on reference for Solaris Zones was written in February 2004 by Dennis Clarke at Blastwave, providing the essentials to getting started.
The book Oracle Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials written by Jeff Victor, et al., offers feature details and best practices.
[9] As of Solaris 10 10/08, Branded Zones are supported on the sun4us architecture (Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER servers) through packages FJSVs8brandr and FJSVs9brandr.