@george1421 Cool. Thanks a lot for all of your help.

@george1421 That is pretty much what I did to do to get it to capture the image. I think what I did could be considered equivelant but maybe you can weigh in on that.
What I did was create a new storage group with my fileserver in it, disabled the default storage group and switched my image to use the new storage group. It seems to be working. So now my VM is basically handling all the control, scheduling, info managment, and frontend and the file server is doing all of the file serving. Just wondering if you have a link to documentation on how to install by hand. I would like to create a puppet module at some point to install storage nodes and perhaps even the full fog system.

I am running the install for storage node now. I see that it needs openssh-server. I assume it just needs it present, so no modification of certs or configuration, correct?

@george1421 Awesome. Sounds like a plan then. Just curious… you said something about flipping the roles… What would you suggest? I was thinking about making my file server the entire FOG setup but figured with existing services running it would be easier to squeeze in just the storage node portion.

@george1421 My Fog server is a VM. My original plan was to have files served from my existing NFS server to the VM and fog would take care of business from there. I set everything up and attempted to image a machine and realized that during imaging fog mounts the images directory, or a child thereof, in order to do the imaging. As such NFS cannot share a share from another NFS server, as would be the case in this situation. So I figured I could make my existing NFS server a storage node and all would be good, at least that is the plan. I was kinda leaning toward create the storage node by hand but it sounds like if I back up my /etc/exports file and merge it with the final product after the install I should be golden. I figured it was just the mysql client that it installed if anything, just wanted to make sure.

OK, any other services that it would affecft? I assume it will just create another db when it sees mysql already running?

Debian 9.4

I’d like to use an existing file server as a storage node but I know that the install scripts installs and sets up a few services… Some of these services are already running on my filesever. I am wondering what effect it will have on these.

The ones I am particularly concerned about are mysql and nfs.