Storage for VCP lab

Just about to start building a lab to run through all the VCP requirements after completing the stanley CC course.
Going to be doing it all in Vmware workstation, what's the best free/easiest storage setup which will mimic iscsi/nfs as well as it can to be able to lab all the vcp requirements from peoples experience.
Going to be doing it all in Vmware workstation, what's the best free/easiest storage setup which will mimic iscsi/nfs as well as it can to be able to lab all the vcp requirements from peoples experience.
Goals for 2019: ICND2 first of all then see how it goes.
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Introduction of iSCSI Target in Windows Server 2012 - The Storage Team at Microsoft - File Cabinet Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
NFS and iSCSI are also relatively straightforward to set up on vanilla Linux and Windows 2012+ (not sure about 2008 from memory).
Openfiler only requires 2Gb.
Here is a video I made 2 years ago on setting up Openfiler inside VM Workstation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8JL2P2Apus
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If you are RAM limited then Nas4Free might be for you - it is based on an older codebase of FreeNas and in fact, it is a heck of a lot easier to administrate as well.
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Yea - 8GB for vCenter tho is a frustrating experience ... I think nowadays 32GB is the bare minimum for bare minimum labs ... In fact - maybe look at Ravello - as vExpert you get 1000 CPU hours / month for free ...
https://www.ravellosystems.com/go/vexpert
I'd be surprised if they scrap that for 2016 ...
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