Editing Nested lab architecture (section)

== A Windows VM as a NAS ==
Yes, I run a Windows VM as a NAS (and it doubles as a Data Copy Management workstation). Why? Because it is brilliant in how I operate my lab. Imagine the following scenario:<br>
''I have some dedicated lab time during a weekend, and I get cracking. I want to test out the new vSphere beta, so I go to the beta download site and download a bunch of ISOs and OVAs on my laptop over a relatively slow WiFi connection. I then copy these over to my NFS NAS so I can access them from within ESXi to build a nested lab.''<br><br>
See how this puts distance (in terms of physical closeness, but also in terms of connectivity: bandwidth and latency) between me and my lab? This is why I've built a Windows NAS VM (presenting the same folders on the NAS via SMB to my home network and via NFS to ESXi). This is how I work:<br>
''I have some dedicated lab time during a weekend, and I get cracking. I want to test out the new vSphere beta, so I RDP into my Windows NAS VM, fire up a browser, go to the beta download site and download a bunch of ISOs and OVAs to the default download folder, which is shared via NFS to ESXi. I can immediately start building my nested lab.''<br>