Store ESX5 images on a NAS?

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Published on 2012-07-11T09:04:06Z Indexed on 2012/07/11 9:17 UTC
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I have a basic NAS device (Buffallo LinkStation Duo) that can only present SMB fileshares to the network. For testing annd for getting a dying physical machine working I would like to store my VMDK on here. Is that possible, or will I have to find some way of presenting this as an iSCSI target of some sort?

I've only used iSCSI or local storage in the past, but this isn't possible at the moment.

Thanks.

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