Hi,

I’m receiving an error when attempting to upload a new image from a computer workstation. It states ‘Mounting file system failed. %windows storage node IP address%:/images/ on /images failed: no such file or directory’.

My FOG Server is utilising the Ubuntu 14.04.2 Server x64 platform. My FOG Server is version 1.2.0. My FOG Server resides within a VMware vSphere 5.5 Hypervisor. I had issues utilising the local storage node. I created a thread specific to this problem. Since this thread as suggested I created a new FOG Server instance on a CentOS platform. Unfortunately I had difficulty during the FOG Server installation; with the additional server components that the system require – specifically MySQL, and the outdated repository sources.
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/5171/vmware-vsphere-ide-hdd-image-store

I conducted more research and have since decided to continue with Ubuntu, while utilising a Windows NFS server as the FOG Server Storage Node. I have been utilising the documentation below as a reference.
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Windows_Storage_Node
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOGUserGuide#Separate_NFS_Server

Take note the errors stated above and specifically related to this new implementation of Windows.

I guess my issue is related to the computer workstation not being able to write to the NFS Server, I would assume it’s probably more inclined to be due to not being able to locate the appropriate NFS images path.

Is there any way I can navigate to the NFS storage node from the CLI of Ubuntu? Sorry for my ignorance, I’m not really a Linux sys admin.

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

This thread can now be flagged as resolved.

I ended up moving over to FOG Trunk due to the OS platform version being not supported.

Everything is now working. Huuuuuge thank you to Wayne, & everyone else for your assistance; it’s very much appreciated!

So I’ve completed more testing. I’ve logged into the FTP server on the Storage Node successfully with the default FOG Server account. To re-confirm that I have write access I created a directory.

So I’m not sure what else I can do here, without any further suggestions.

Remote system type is UNIX.
ftp> ls
200 Port command successful
150 Opening data channel for directory listing of “/”
-rw-r–r-- 1 ftp ftp 0 Jun 30 11:45 .mntcheck
drwxr-xr-x 1 ftp ftp 0 Jun 30 12:08 dev
226 Successfully transferred “/”
ftp> mkdir test
257 “/test” created successfully
ftp>

I tried one more time with CentOS. I already knew about MariaDB when I did my research of CentOS. So with a little more research this time round of MariaDB I completed a successful install of FOG Server on CentOS 7.
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Installation_on_CentOS_7#Mariadb_.28optional.29

Unfortunately my hosts are not able to connect to the internal storage node.
Mounting File System:…mount: mounting %FOG Server IP Address%:/images/dev/ on images failed: Connection refused
Fatal Error: Failed to mount NFS Volume.

I haven’t performed any research specific to this new problem with CentOS. But I thought I would mention it just in case an answer is posted before I find it myself.

Again, thanks in advance.

Thank you very much for the quick replies; much appreciated!

I ended up discovering my problem was with the NFS server. I hadn’t set the share correctly on the Windows server.

The problem I now have is with FTP & the uploading of a image. I can only assume I shouldn’t have to manually create the image directory for the specific host. Even so for kicks I created the image folder called FGASupervisor, which resulted in the same log as shown below from the FTP server.

What confuses me is that the log states file not found.

I simply registered a host. Created a image. Linked the image to the host, and then created a task to upload the image. Take note the FTP user account has full permissions to the file system for read, write & so on.

I’m not sure what other information I can provide to assist with the configuration, without including too much unnecessary information. Other than to re-clarify that I uterlised the following document to complete the configuration.
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Windows_Storage_Node

Thanks in advance, cheers.

(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> 230 Logged on
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> PASV
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,0,0,24,212,240)
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> DELE /images/FGASupervisor
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> 550 File not found
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> RMD /images/FGASupervisor
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> 550 Directory not found
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> TYPE A
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> 200 Type set to A
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> NLST /images/FGASupervisor
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> 550 Directory not found.
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> PASV
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,0,0,24,248,170)
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> NLST /images/dev/74e6e2db8fa4
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> 550 Directory not found.
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> QUIT
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> 221 Goodbye
(000003)30/06/2015 15:29:48 PM - fog (10.0.0.20)> disconnected.

Hi,

I’m receiving an error when attempting to upload a new image from a computer workstation. It states ‘Mounting file system failed. %windows storage node IP address%:/images/ on /images failed: no such file or directory’.

My FOG Server is utilising the Ubuntu 14.04.2 Server x64 platform. My FOG Server is version 1.2.0. My FOG Server resides within a VMware vSphere 5.5 Hypervisor. I had issues utilising the local storage node. I created a thread specific to this problem. Since this thread as suggested I created a new FOG Server instance on a CentOS platform. Unfortunately I had difficulty during the FOG Server installation; with the additional server components that the system require – specifically MySQL, and the outdated repository sources.
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/5171/vmware-vsphere-ide-hdd-image-store

I conducted more research and have since decided to continue with Ubuntu, while utilising a Windows NFS server as the FOG Server Storage Node. I have been utilising the documentation below as a reference.
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Windows_Storage_Node
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOGUserGuide#Separate_NFS_Server

Take note the errors stated above and specifically related to this new implementation of Windows.

I guess my issue is related to the computer workstation not being able to write to the NFS Server, I would assume it’s probably more inclined to be due to not being able to locate the appropriate NFS images path.

Is there any way I can navigate to the NFS storage node from the CLI of Ubuntu? Sorry for my ignorance, I’m not really a Linux sys admin.

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Very quick responses, thank you.

I’m new to the FOG Project. So I was relying on material online in regards to compatibility.
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki//index.php/FOG_with_VMWare

OK, I’ll create a new SCSI HDD VM & see if I’m able to write to the image store.

Cheers

Hi,

I’m receiving an error when attempting to upload a new image from a computer workstation. It states ‘unable to locate the image store’. I’ve read online that FOG Server only supports IDE HDD’s.

My FOG Server is utilising the Ubuntu 14.04.2 Server x86 platform. My FOG Server is version 1.2.0. My FOG Server resides within a VMware vSphere 5.5 Hypervisor. I noticed from my research a lot of users were using VMware Workstation; which handles HDD’s differently. But I did find threads from this forum discussing successful integrations of FOG Server with VMware vSphere.
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/241/what-do-you-have-fog-running-on/18?page=1
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/2145/vmware-vsphere-5-5-announced/7

Regardless if you specify the HDD controller to be an IDE drive, the underlining HDD controller is SCSI. Either being BusLogic Parallel, LSI Logic Parallel, & so on; I’m using the default being LSI Logic SAS. Within the advance options of the HDD I’m using IDE (0:0).

So I’m interested how some of the users here were able to successfully create a VM within vSphere that allowed FOG Server to recognise the image store. Alternatively are these users using an image stores not residing on a VM, for example a Windows Server hosting a NFS data store?

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers