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Creating and Using Oracle^® Solaris Zones

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Chapter 1 How to Plan and Configure Non-Global Zones

Chapter 2 About Installing, Shutting Down, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones

Chapter 3 Installing, Booting, Shutting Down, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones

Zone Installation Task Map

Installing and Booting Zones

(Optional) How to Verify a Configured Zone Before It Is Installed

How to Install a Configured Zone

How to Obtain the UUID of an Installed Non-Global Zone

How to Mark an Installed Non-Global Zone Incomplete

(Optional) How to Transition the Installed Zone to the Ready State

How to Boot a Zone

How to Boot a Zone in Single-User Mode

Where to Go From Here

Shutting Down, Halting, Rebooting, Uninstalling, Cloning, and Deleting Non-Global Zones Task Map

Shutting Down, Halting, Rebooting, and Uninstalling Zones

How to Shutdown a Zone

How to Halt a Zone

How to Reboot a Zone

How to Use the zoneadm Command to Rename a Zone

How to Uninstall a Zone

Cloning a Non-Global Zone on the Same System

How to Clone a Zone

Moving a Non-Global Zone

How to Move a Zone That Is Not on Shared Storage

Deleting a Non-Global Zone From the System

How to Remove a Non-Global Zone

Chapter 6 Live Zone Reconfiguration

Chapter 7 About Zone Migrations and the zonep2vchk Tool

Chapter 8 Migrating Oracle Solaris Systems and Migrating Non-Global Zones

Chapter 9 About Automatic Installation and Packages on an Oracle Solaris 11.2 System With Zones Installed

Chapter 10 About Oracle Solaris Zones Administration

Chapter 11 Administering Oracle Solaris Zones

Chapter 12 Configuring and Administering Immutable Zones

Chapter 13 Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Oracle Solaris Zones Problems

Chapter 14 Getting Started With Oracle Solaris Zones on Shared Storage

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How to Use the `zoneadm` Command to Rename a Zone

Use the zoneadm command with the rename subcommand to rename a zone.

Become an administrator.
For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .

Change the name of the zone.
```
zoneadm -z old_name rename new_name
```

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