Organizations Using FOG
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@dclark Excellent, it looks like you fully embraced the FOG environment. Well done.
Just a comment on multicasting. Yes it can be difficult to setup. With a large and disperse network I can see where you might have issues because multicasting only is transmitted from the master node in each storage group. So in your setup it would only be practical on your main campus.
So I have to ask you a question. What one feature do you feel is missing in FOG that would make your deployments easier/faster/greener?
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@george1421 That’s a tough question. One thing I have been toying with is some Active Directory integration as far as comparison between FOG hosts and AD hosts. I currently have a framework in PHP to pull records from both and do a daily comparison. I use this to both find hosts that don’t have the FOG client installed for whatever reason, or possibly a client that has broke and also find hosts that have gotten deleted from FOG and not AD or vice-versa. It helps to keep both the FOG host records and AD cleaner and keep clutter to a minimum. If FOG could be directly integrated that when you delete a host you have a choice of also deleting it from AD if it exists. I don’t know if that is something that the community would use or if it would be more of a one-off type of feature, maybe an optional plug-in.
Greener? - I have to say as it stands it has changed things for us dramatically already! We used to average at least 2500 machines left on all the time, now with the shutdown features available in FOG we have it down under 100 most nights/weekends which are mostly machines that need to be on (HVAC controllers, etc…).
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@george1421 We also have a White Paper I wrote about our initial integration of FOG if you are interested - PM an email address if you would like.
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@dclark Please do share with the community. This is an excellent way to contribute to the fog project. Also, it’s always refreshing and nice to hear positive stories about FOG.
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Here is the basic white paper on how it helped the district during a tough budget year and ended up being one of the better finds we have made within the IT department.
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@dclark mind retrying the upload?
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@dclark Checking in from Milford School District. I heard you guys switched over to FOG.
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@tom-elliott Tried it as images - I can email it to you in pdf format if you would like. Just let me know if/where.
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@adukes40 It will be a year next month that we started out with a test instance. Honestly it has been less headaches than our old solution ever was!
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Boyum IT Hosting A/S
Denmark
About 50 systems
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Pickaway-Ross Career Technical Center
United States
350+
We began playing with FOG a year ago and have been slowly implementing it more and more
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Technische Hochschule Deggendorf
Deggendorf Institute of Technology
Germany
about 120 Clients
1 Server
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@dclark Awesome white paper! If I could upvote it 20 times, I would.
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@dclark said in Organizations Using FOG:
@adukes40 It will be a year next month that we started out with a test instance. Honestly it has been less headaches than our old solution ever was!
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@tom-elliott said in Organizations Using FOG:
Organization Name: EKIMIA company
Location (Optional) : Marseille , France
Approximate Number of systems: more than 500 systems shipped to customers using FOG
How long: Since Mid 2015.
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Organization Name: Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Campus Viamão
Location: Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
Approximate Number of systems: 50 in our 2 laboratorys
How long: 3 months
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Organization Name: UWC Robert Bosch CollegeLocation: Germany
Approximate Number of systems: 70
How long: since mid 2018
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@Tom-Elliott said in Organizations Using FOG:
Organization Name: Davidson County Sheriff’s Office
Location: Nashville, TN
Approximate Number of systems: 750
How long: since 2012 -
Organization Name: INSA Rennes
Location (Optional) : Rennes , France
Approximate Number of systems: 1300
How long: Since Mid 2017. -
@Tom-Elliott
Organization Name: Tribunal Regional Eleitoral do Paraná
Location: Paraná - Brazil
Approximate Number of systems: about 2500 registered hosts and 158 different locations
How long: since early 2018Tribunal Regional Eleitoral do Paraná, a.k.a. TRE-PR, is the government body responsible for the electoral process (election, electronic ballot box, tabulation of results, etc.)
We’re proud to post here because at this very date, we concluded our implementation of FOG in our entire state (Paraná), wich means:
- a central location at our state capital (Curitiba), with our main server, and about 500 hosts
- 157 remote locations in the entire state of Paraná, each one with about 5 to 40 hosts, totaling about 2500 hosts, each one with a Storage Node.
So, hurray and thanks for all the efforts of the development team and your support!
