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Originally Posted by
Peasant
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.
Oh yes, I'm running VMware Fusion currently on the Mac OS X to boot into Solaris 10. I'm a huge virtualization user and appreciate all it's benefits. I suppose my interest was more to see how it would interact with the hardware. Plus, when you're running an OS on the bare metal you learn a lot more about how it interfaces. After all, VMware won't be automating so many administrative tasks like adding a device, etc.