@wayne-workman said in One StorageNode for multiple Masters:

Also - the way you think you want to setup FOG I believe is due to your lack of knowledge of how FOG is supposed to work in a distributed setup.

Yeah, so true Currently, we’ve backed off of a distributed setup.

Do you know about any FOG training? I’ve found dawan in the wiki, but it looks like this is french only and thus not possible (well, at least for me). It’ll be helpful to know should we decide in future that we actually want a distributed setup.

George, Wayne, these are helpful comments. Thanks!

Actually I’m kind of surprised that you think the solution is special at all. You have one storage node that multiple masters can use for data storage purposes. Actually, we do not want to replicate the data at all, we just want one storage location where each master can deploy images to its clients. I do hope we don’t talk past another! That is why we thought to attach a network filesystem to the FOG masters and be done - unfortunately it does not work due to NFS usage.

For the use case: We want to capture images from nodes in one part of the network and deploy them to nodes of another part of the network. The nodes in the network partitions are sufficiently equal (hopefully).We cannot use one FOG master since parts of the network might be inaccessible, however there will be a machine that can access the relevant network partition and the storage node - this machine then hosts another FOG master…

I think I’m going to spend time experimenting with some setups just to get used to the terminology and how things work out.

Thanks again,
Stefan Hanke

Hi,

the question title says it all - we want to use a single storage node for multiple masters.
I did not find any specific information regarding such a setup, just some indication that it may work [0].
Some masters would just do deploys, while a specific one would do captures also.

Some background:
The FOG master instance is installed on Ubuntu Server on a VirtualBox (on Win7). We tried to just mount an external folder via vboxsf, which did not work presumably due to FOG NFS usage (we’re not sure on this one).

Might it be possible that we somehow make FOG use FTP/HTTP/whatever instead of NFS during image deploy/capture?

I hope this does not sound too basic/uninformed; I’ve read some bits here and there, and am generally unsure on how to proceed.

Regards,
Stefan Hanke

[0] https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Multiple_TFTP_servers