Part 2
For the remainder of this thread I’ll continue with the Windows 2008 R2 server as the windows storage node. If time permits I’ll circle back and attempt the same thing with 2012, but based on what I’ve done so far I have confidence that 2012 will work equally as well as 2008.
There is one bit of error data I found running through a QC check before moving onto the next part. I created the FTP site using the powershell command: New-WebFtpSite -Name "FOGFtpSite" -Port 21 -PhysicalPath "c:\share" -IPAddress "192.168.1.205" While testing I found that the -PhysicalPath switch did not update the ftp server setting causing the ftp server to report that the home folder could not be located. I went into the mmc console for IIS and manually set the homedrive for the ftp server. Once that was done I was able to login via FTP.
On to the QC checks before moving on to the FOG setup of this. For these tests we’ll use a windows 7 workstation.
First we need to test to see if the FTP server is working and we can login using the fog_user account we setup.
C:\>ftp 192.168.1.205
Connected to 192.168.1.205.
220 Microsoft FTP Service
User (192.168.1.205:(none)): fog_user
331 Password required for fog_user.
Password:
230 User logged in.
Just issue a dir command to see if we can see the files we created.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
125 Data connection already open; Transfer starting.
05-22-16 08:39PM <DIR> images
05-22-16 07:41PM <DIR> snapins
05-24-16 02:42PM <DIR> tftpboot
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 144 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 144000.00Kbytes/sec.
quit
That completes the FTP test
The next step is to test the tftp server
C:\>tftp 192.168.1.205 get default.ipxe
Transfer successful: 427 bytes in 1 second, 427 bytes/s
If your tests matches the above then we can move onto the FOG part of the setup.
My dev environment was created fresh with the latest trunk version of FOG 1.2.0. The following is the complete steps I went through to setup FOG to communicate with the windows storage node.
Fog Configuration -> Plugin System
FOG_PLUGINSYS_ENABLED = checked
Plugin Managment
Activate and install Location management plugin
Storage Management -> Add Storage node
Name: WinStoreNode
IP Address: 192.168.1.205
Web Root: /fog
Max Clients: 10
Is Master Node: (unchecked)
Replication Bandwidth: 0
Storage Group: default
Image Path: /images
FTP Path: /images
Snapin Path: /snapins
SSL Path: /snapins/ssl
Bitrate: (blank)
Interface: eth0
Is Enabled: (checked)
Is Graph enabled: (unchecked)
Managment Username: fog_user
Managment Password: mi5ty_cl0ud
Location Managment -> Create New Location
Location Name: winsn
Storage Group: Default
Storage Node: WinStoreNode
Use inits and kernels from this node: (checked)
Press the Add button
I next copied a host image from my production server to the dev environment. Once all of the files were in place, I went back to the FOG GUI and added an Image reference that defined the image I copied over from my production server.
And finally I restarted the FOGImageReplication service. Inspecting the /opt/fog/log directory you should see the replication service start up with a transfer log specifically for the windows storage node we just created (i.e. fogreplicator.log.transfer.WinStoreNode.log). If you see this long file, hop over to your windows storage node and inspect the directory c:\share\images to see if the image files have started to copy over from the FOG server.
