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Windows 11 Pro for Workstation. Broken features, lack of support.
There are two reasons I wanted to deploy workstation edition for a new system I'm working on. ReFS and RDMA. I'm unable to use ReFS and in my research and troubleshooting I've found out there is very...
Workstation-specific features (such as ReFS/persistent memory support) require server-grade hardware (such as Xeon/Westmere architecture + ECC memory) to be fully enabled and may be limited on standard PCs.
It's an HP Z8 G4.
After disabling Windows Business Edition licensing on my cloud account and reactivated the pro for workstation license the features worked. This is a licensing/ feature conflict and as a bug probably still exists.
Compatibility checks for certified hardware only happen using Storage Spaces Direct. You can use consumer drives hardware (not recommended). Just need to understand how those work and can blow up storage spaces in certain situations.