Utilising Thunderbolt port for storage in a lab environment

Hi All
I'm looking to set up a lab and wanted to use Mac Mini's for their footprint and the 10Gbps Thunderbolt to share storage through something like Starwind NativeNAS. Has anybody got any experience of this or something similar? I know Mac OSX has the Thunderbolt
Bridge which can use the TB connection as an ethernet connection but i'm not sure if there's a way of doing the same from within Windows 2012? I've attached a diagram explaining what i'm looking to achieve.
Many thanks
Lee

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<http://startech.com/Cables/Audio-Video/HDMI/>
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<http://www.apple.com/airport-express/>
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