Windows 10: How well would this work?

I am building a server for home use, which will consist of an i3-2100 and 16 GB of memory. It will have a single Crucial 256 GB SSD in it. On the same gigabit network, I have a WD EX4 NAS. Is there a way to run Hyper-V on the server, and keep the actual VMs on the NAS unit? If so, how well will this work?

My goal is to have many VMs stored on the NAS that I can boot up at any time.

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How would I do this as it would interfere with my Windows 8.1 updates at this time.

<Original title: Windows 10 installation>

I have a free installation of Windows 10 ready to install and I want to cancel it. How would I do this as it would interfere with my Windows 8.1 updates at this time.

 

How would I do this as it would interfere with my Windows 8.1 updates at this time.

Option 1:
How to Disable the Get Windows 10 Update GWX App Completely

Option 2:
Stop the Windows 10 Upgrade with Never 10 or the GWX App Itself

 

The issue I see is the NAS drive may not be bootable. Mine [2] are attached to the Router by Ethernet cable and not available until after an OS/Operating System has booted and running. However, some BIOS setups include booting from a LAN, don't really know if a NAS is included in that.

 

Assume both the server and the NAS would be running. Let's say I RDP into the server and start one of the VMs, maybe to load a Windows 7 VM so I can test some software or verify some settings while supporting a family members computer.

 

It will work, however, you can expect some latency with reading and writing data to the NAS over the network. That will be your bottleneck.