We are in the process of resurrecting a legacy windows driver for a 10Gb PCI NIC card and would like to get HLK Windows Certification for WinServer 2016 and WinServer 2019. The issue that we are running into is that the capital requirement to run the test is more than we can afford. I’m hoping that my understanding of the hardware requirements are incorrect. Below I have included the requirements that I read from the Microsoft page.
- If you have run this test what was the minimum hardware configuration that you were able to use for the 3 server nodes.
- Have you worked with any testing services that have performed HLK testing for you, specifically with this test?
Thanks
Paul
This is from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/hlk/testref/private-cloud-simulator
PrivateCloudSimulator - Device.Network.LAN.10GbOrGreater
System Requirements
System Requirements
Requirement Description
Component Being certified NIC
Setup Type Hyper-converged setup with S2D storage. Note: An SDDC certified HBA is required.
Minimum Number of Server Nodes 3 identical machines
Server Spec CPU: 16 physical cores (e.g. 2 sockets with 8 cores), MEMORY: 128 GB, 64GB free space on boot drive
Storage Overall 4 TB free space per node on HDD, 800 GB free space per node on SSD
Disk If there are drives used as cache, there must be at least 2 per server. There must be at least 4 capacity (non-cache) drives per server. See S2D hardware requirements for more information.
Network Card NIC being certified