Okay, further information…

If i deploy directly using the deploy button in the host view, it’ll ignore the location and deploy from the storage node.

If i deploy using the button via the group view and deploy to the entire group (which is currently of 1… and location set on group as well) it’ll correctly choose the main office server for the image.

Hmmmm…

Howdy all.
First time posting.

So, i’ve recently set up a storage node at our remote location, and added it via the GUI on our full blown master at the main site.
Main fog server set as master, node not, both are within the same storage group and images are replicating fine.

Installed location plugin and set up the two locations, remote set to node and main office set to master.

But, assigned main office location to a machine, and when i started a deployment task for that machine, it continuously tried to pull the image from the offsite storage node :S
The only way i could force it to pull from the main one was to set the max clients of the storage node to 0.

Looks like the location is being ignored completely and it’s acting like the plugin isn’t installed. Any thoughts?

Hi all.

Been using fog for 2 academic cycles now and very happy with how it’s been working.

This year I’ve had a very specific issue I’ve had to solve though.

40 of our computers have had an upgrade, adding in a 240GB SSD as the boot drive with the original 1TB HDD becoming a workspace drive for users.
The OS aspect has been fine as these computers are in a gpo that pushes user profiles to the larger hard drive, but on the deployment side of things I had to do a number of things manually to get my main base image to install deploy correctly.

Firstly, I had to wipe the original HDD manually, install the SSD and disconnect the HDD, deploy the image, then reconnect the HDD and format it to NTFS.

I had a play around with setting the install to drive but to get that to work I’d have to have already wiped the HDD and figured out whether it is seeing the SSD as /Dev/SDA or /Dev/SDB (it wasn’t the same on every machine).

So, question is, is it possible for fog to figure out which is the SSD by itself?
If it could, then there could be the option to install to SSD in the host config rather than specify a device that might change, and could potentially then also have a config to format remaining drives in a specific way (i.e. NTFS for a secondary drive…)