home lab - nas to use as a datastore?

Hi Everyone,
Can anyone recommend a free/opensource solution to use as a datastore as NAS for a VMware lab? I just discovered Samba is not usable. Please correct me if im wrong.
Thanks!
Node
Can anyone recommend a free/opensource solution to use as a datastore as NAS for a VMware lab? I just discovered Samba is not usable. Please correct me if im wrong.
Thanks!
Node
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and if you have a Windows server, under server manager, use the iSCSI feature.
Plenty of options.
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This was correct. I fixed the problem by exporting the correct home volume.
Thanks!
I found out about this website when looking into building an all in one home lab type of server on the cheap. These guys started on plex subreddit i think and talked about hardware too much and then started another subreddit JDM_Waaat
Anyways I just built the anniversary build (Not Safe For Wallet). I went with Dual Xeon 8c/16t and 64mb ram (server holds up to 512mb). Motherboard has dual 10gb Ethernet, ipmi, and LSI SAS controller that is flashed to IT mode passing storage control over to freenas 11 VM, and nesting ESXi 6.7. Getting ready for Stanly CC class since I never took the test 4 years ago when i took the class before.
Openfiler and Windows ISCSI(easy to configure) are great options, used them many, many times in a VMware lab.
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