You can use this http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=1233
or this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817984008
Only takes 1 slot and the first one is hot swapable.
this software doesn't have ability to set the credentials for the connecting user, it will just use whatever user is currently logged in. So in order for this to work properly you need to run under account that has admin access to the system you're trying to connect.
basically it constantly spits out
vmxnet3s: [ID 654879 kern.notice] vmxnet3s:0: getcapab(0x200000) -> no
everything seems to work fine so probably ok to ignore. Network speeds seem fine, but I need to do some 10Gbe tests this weekend
yes using vmxnet3 but i just recently did the upgrade, need to do some testing. It seems to constantly spit out some msgs
The upgrade is super easy, you just use the built in pkg manager. see http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E23811/glpgv.html#glpdr
You can get iso of SE 11 here
I got vmware tools working on solaris 11. Used a trick though, install solaris express 11, install vmware tools from esxi 5 U1 then perform upgrade from se 5.11 to solaris 11.11
vmware tools continue to work on solaris 11 :D