Hey george1421,
Thanks for the response.
To clear things up a bit. We do have multicast working across vlans, the issue is more the reliability. On one vlan only certain models (Dell e5430s, Dell 3380s) will multicast with others (Dell 3340s, Dell 3350s, Dell 3390 2in1) get to the gparted screen and just sit like they are waiting additional computers to join. Then on both of the vlans if you need to cancel the multicast tasks and try to kick if off again, it seems to be hit or miss if the host get past the gparted screen and start imaging. Seems I need to wait a certain amount of time before trying to kick off the job again. I haven’t nailed down that minimum wait time…seems to be 15 min or less. If I do it too soon it just sits at the gparted screen.
So that is why I decided to look at the Storage Node approach. I then came across the wiki article about Storage management.
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Managing_FOG#Storage_Manangement
In the Storage Management section it talks about Storage Groups and multicasting via the Storage Group’s Group Master Node. I was unclear if I could make sure hosts on a vlan hit the Group Master Node on that vlan. Maybe I was adding wishful thinking.
Thanks
Randy