@george1421 said in Fog Server on VMWare - ln -s /mnt/hgfs /images ?:

@RobertFontaine What you are doing (reading between the lines).

You are mounting the exported nfs shares from you nas onto your fog server and then trying to nfs export them from the fog server?

If that is what I am doing I suspect that this will also fail. I’m not clear on the mechanism that vmware is using to map the host folder to the vm file system but that hasn’t kept me from trying… symbolic link - nope, hard link - nope, change the mount point - maybe?

@RobertFontaine said in Fog Server on VMWare - ln -s /mnt/hgfs /images ?:

So second try might work then …

cp images images.old
edit the fstab…

vmhgfs-fuse on /mnt/hgfs type fuse.vmhgfs-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other)

vmhgfs-fuse on /images type fuse.vmhgfs-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other)

cp old to new.

took a bit to find the syntax… always hated the difference between fstab and mount.

.host:/images / vmhgfs defaults,ttl=5,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

So second try might work then …

cp images images.old
edit the fstab…

vmhgfs-fuse on /mnt/hgfs type fuse.vmhgfs-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other)

vmhgfs-fuse on /images type fuse.vmhgfs-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other)

cp old to new.

I will have between 800GB and 1TB of images. Looking for an interim solution while I assemble the lab.

Running about 10 test machines that I need to be able to test win7/8.1/10 various sp’s/anniversary/creators etc against.

They will go on a NAS (freenas) , raidz2 or 3 probably a sc846 with a couple of dozen 4TB spinners.

Virtual server in the dungeon will either be esxi (vmug advantage) or proxmox.

• (I have been very happy w/ vmware workstation to date but am finding it limiting for the current lab). I have a stack of s3500 600gb to mirror for the virt server and a couple of 2670e5s/128gb to drive it.

NAS will likely also be overpowered. have a v3/v4 serverboard that I will spend the next 6 months building up.

I figure I will put my primary ad on centos on the vm server and use freenas for the secondary. I have the server 2016 licences but I prefer *ix and it’s my dungeon so I get to pick.

At some point I will probably be forced to configure and install the microsoft deployment tools and monitoring but till then I will probably have a look at nagios

Currently tieing the junk together w/ a 24 port 1 gig switch and pfsense on an i5. I’ve started collecting 10gbe nics and will probably break down and add the second switch. (most of the test hardware is limited to 1gbe so mostly I don’t need).

Virtualizing the Fog Server and thinking that I should keep the images on the metal so that the VM doesn’t explode to a silly size. I did a little googling but didn’t see anyone recommending this.

Is this a silly idea? What is best practice?

Thanks,
Robert