Although OpenSolaris is initially targeted as a premium developer platform, IHVs (Independent Hardware Vendors) are busily making their solutions available on it. The Solaris Ready Program certifies and verifies these products on the different OS platforms on offer from Sun. The Solaris Ready program allows Sun customers and developers to have multiple choices of third party I/O technology products for use with Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris platforms.
The Solaris Ready Program allows developers to display the Solaris Ready logo, enabling customers to readily identify third-party solutions having proven interoperability with the Solaris Operating System on SPARC and x86/x64 based server platforms. The Solaris Ready logo informs customers that these products have met the testing requirements of the Solaris Ready Program for system compatibility, interoperability, ease-of-installation, functionality, and network interoperability as defined and controlled by Sun. Participants in the Solaris Ready Program have also committed to provide long-term support for their products of the Solaris Ready Program leading to greater customer confidence.
You can find the cards and devices compatible with OpenSolaris 05.11
here and even the recently released OpenSolaris 11.08 already has a bunch of
entries here. Some of the I/O technologies and product types in the program are:
USB 2.0 -- USB 2.0 Hubs, KVM switches, keyboards , USB to Serial devices, CD ROM & DVD RW devices
PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express -- Network adapters, USB 2.0 adapters, Graphics adapters & expansion boxes
SATA and SAS -- hard disk drives and their adapters
Fiber - Fiber optic switchesFiber Channel - SAN Arrays
iSCSI - IO Controllers and adapters
10 Gig Ethernet - copper and fiber network cards
IHVs who'd like to make their solutions available for OpenSolaris can do so by registering for the Solaris Ready Program.
