Adding NAS (NFS) - storage to FOG

Sebastian Roth · Mar 1, 2016, 8:52 AM

@boeleke Re-exporting a mounted NFS share is not going to work. See here and numerous other information on the internet. Has been asked in the FOG forums a couple of times as well.

boeleke · Mar 1, 2016, 9:01 AM

@Sebastian-Roth
I did search a lot about this problem but i didn’t found any solution.
I’m not working with 3 systems like in your topic. I’m just working with a QNAP that is mounted on the ubuntu fog server. & when i add this storage in the gui , i find it. But once i want to upload an image , it fails.

I hope you can help me further.
I’m not that familiar with linux.

Greetings

Sebastian Roth · Mar 1, 2016, 9:05 AM

@boeleke You might want to read through this post and we also have an article in the wiki (FreeNAS not QNAP).

Edit: And maybe try searching the forums for QNAP as well.

boeleke · Mar 1, 2016, 3:09 PM

@Sebastian-Roth
I did read both of the articles already & tried it.
But still nothing.

The must be a possibility to add it , i’m searching already 2 days for it but i didn’t find it yet…

Wayne Workman · Mar 1, 2016, 4:05 PM

@boeleke said:

@Sebastian-Roth
I did read both of the articles already & tried it.
But still nothing.

Read closer. I promise your QNAP nas can be a storage node. It’s just a matter of setting up NFS and FTP on it. If you have some time, maybe I can help you via teamviewer so that we can figure it out, and I can later document what we found.

boeleke · Mar 2, 2016, 1:38 AM

@Wayne-Workman

Hi there.
I would be gratefull.
I think i got some mistakes with my QNAP. I’m not sure what settings …
See pictures.

ch3i · Mar 2, 2016, 7:52 AM

@boeleke Hi, If your NAS is mounted on your FOG server via NFS you can’t re-export it as NFS via FOG server. You have to create a node storage with IP of NAS ans specify NFS and FTP path in the node settings. Before you have to create a user “fog” in your NAS with the same password of the “fog” user of the FOG server.

When you’ll upload/download image on that node (Your NAS) the fog client will connect directly on your NAS not via your FOG server.

boeleke · Mar 2, 2016, 2:01 AM

@ch3i

Hi there ch3i,

thanks for your answer.
that was the first thing i tried. I added a user ‘fog’ with the same password on the QNAP.
Then i added a storage node. But it failed. (See pictures)

LINK FOR BETTER IMAGE : http://i65.tinypic.com/5yucyd.png

ch3i · Mar 2, 2016, 8:03 AM

@boeleke FTP and NFS path or the sames on your NAS ?

boeleke · Mar 2, 2016, 8:10 AM

@ch3i

hi there!
I’m not sure , i’m not that familiar with all the NAS-settings.
I can acces my NAS on windows with :

ftp://172.16.0.17/images

& i use the same path for my nfs , isn’t it?

Sorry , i’m just a beginner :).

ch3i · Mar 2, 2016, 2:18 AM

@boeleke For QNAP the NFS path seem to be : /share/your_nfs_share but for the ftp access it’s /your_nfs_share. In FOG trunk (https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Upgrade_to_trunk) you can differentiate NFS and FTP path. In your version FTP and NFS path must be the same !

boeleke · Mar 2, 2016, 8:51 AM

@ch3i

hi there.
Thank you for the help. I’m working in a school environment & we can’t work with unstable releases.
If we want to use it every week , it need to be stable.
Is there not another option?

Thanks for the help!

ch3i · Mar 2, 2016, 9:25 AM

@boeleke I’m working in a School and use Trunk version Trunk versions of FOG are “stable”.

Wayne Workman · Mar 2, 2016, 7:42 AM

@ch3i I too am a systems admin at a school, and I’ve been using FOG Trunk for over a year now. It’s much more stable than it used to be. Others here in the corporate world also use FOG Trunk.

I would recommend that you setup FOG Trunk on a VM though, and take snapshots before each update - just so you have a safety net.

boeleke · Mar 4, 2016, 8:15 AM

@Wayne-Workman & @ch3i ,

Hi there guys,

you both convinced me to do this. So i upgraded to Fog Trunk (i can Revert anyway with a snapshot).
But now i need your guys help to add this storage node. You got a lot more settings :
I’m not sure if its correct now. I mean , the snapin path – must that be a map on the QNAP also?

When i use this settings , i get next mistake

while upgrading trunk , he said : (Setting up and starting VSFTP server : Failed! )

Can you guys help me further?

Sorry for my bad english.

Greetings,
Tom

ch3i · Mar 4, 2016, 8:27 AM

@boeleke Hi, it’s normal, because your NAS is not a “FOG Storage Node”. A real FOG Storage Node is an installation of FOG on another server with “Node Installation”. You NAS have not the FOG installation. It’s not a problem to upload/download.
Tip : If you use multicast your NAS storage node can’t be the master of the group storage.

@Tom-Elliott It’s possible to check if the hw.php is present and display a message to indicate that it’s not a normal node ?

boeleke · Mar 4, 2016, 8:38 AM

@ch3i

Hi Ch3i,
eumh wait. With Multicast you mean , imaging more computer at once? So for example 100 computer with 1 image?
So i need to make a new storage GROUP and link the image with this group?
But how can i image more computers at once then? Just not set it as master node?

I’ll try an upload in a couple of minutes then.