Is it possible to store RDS User Profile Disks on a NAS?

Hi,

I want to store my RDS 2012 R2 User Profile Disks share on a high-performance NAS appliance, not on a Windows Server.

When I attempt to create the share either through the UI or PowerShell it tells me:

Could not create the template VHD. Error Message: The network location \\fs8600nas\RDS_VDI_Profiles is not available..

It works fine when I point to a Windows Server instead of the NAS, so I assume it is attempting to talk to management services on the Windows Server in order to generate the template VHD. Is there a way around this?

I have tried pre-populating the template VHD to no avail.

Does anyone know if it is possible to manually setup the share, or otherwise get it work on a NAS?

Thanks,
Simon.