George & Wayne,
Thank you so for your valuable input, I appreciate the detailed responses as they have been very helpful! I am definitely eager to learn but I am also a novice so I am not going to try to reinvent the wheel here either. So based upon what I learned here I will plan on the following. I will try to cover as much of the information as you gave me so forgive me if I miss something. I
Our Needs:
Just to make sure that you understand what I am wanting Fog to do I will try to give more detail first. As I mentioned we have about 10 sites or so (spread across several states) that I want to implement FOG at. Each of these sites are connected by an 10Mb MPLS or higher. We will not be using FOG heavily and may only image a couple of machines per month at each site but when we do a roll out it could be more. The main thing is just to make sure that we have a standard image (we don’t do anything fancy) that will allow us to image a machine/s as needed to reduce the amount of time it takes to set it up. I would like to get it to join the pc to the domain and things in the future but that is later. The time to replicate is not bad I believe it takes about 4 hours to replicate per image. Our images are pretty vanilla and we don’t plan on having more than a couple images at most and they do not change often so right now I am okay with that.
The most important thing to me right now is to just make sure I have FOG setup in a stable way that it will just work. I have been doing as much reading as I can on how to set it up for our needs but haven’t found any real clear documentation on that as of yet. I am not sure if it is just me or it doesn’t exist So maybe if I can get this figured out I can do a write up on it if one is needed.
Mulit-Master Setups
A Multi-Master setup might be possible but not recommended therefore I will have one site as the master and the rest as storage nodes. I believe it is as simple as installing them as storage nodes (as was recommended) and then making sure INITs and Kernals are selected for that site so that the systems will try to image from the local server and not over the WAN. Correct? If that is the case, then a tech from any site would only connect to the master interface to perform imaging regardless of what site they are at?
IP Address Change
Regarding the IP Address Change. I ended up just reinstalling the system on Saturday night. Using the instructions found here (https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/?title=Uninstall_FOG ). It was really quite easy and not that difficult considering this is a new setup anyway.
Regarding the Replication setups video I did watch it and found it very helpful. Thanks