I have not tried, but why not virtualize solaris 11 on Mac or Win 7 ?
That way you will not encounter potential problem with hardware and have much wider test environment to play with, meaning you can try all sorts of things like NFS, iscsi, zfs etc. with no accidental command doing damage to your machine.
Also, snapshots and clones come handy.
You can virtualize 3 or more solaris machines to simulate real networks (dns, dhcp, automated installer etc.)
All in all, you should run virtual machines for this purpose in either mac or win.