Windows Storage Node

Windows Storage Node

• This is for STORAGE NODES ONLY you will still need a Linux install running as the main server. However, this will be part of the building blocks for a windows server build that yet does not exist.
• You may have a Windows Storage Node in combination with any number of Linux Storage Nodes or just a single Windows Storage Node.
• This has been put together from the forum and should be useful to many. Windows Server NFS

Requirements

1. Windows Server 2008 (R2)/Windows Server 2012 (R2)
2. NFS Role Installed (NFS)
3. Filezilla Installed (FTP)

Windows Step-by-Step

Folder Creation & Setup

• Create folders
  1. Create folder C:\images
  2. Create folder C:\images\dev

• Set Sharing (you may not have kerberos enable do not worry about this)

• Set Permissions: Set proper permissions for All Machines

• Set Security: Make sure you do this for C:\, C:\images, and C:\images\dev

Filezilla Setup (FTP)

• Setup Filezilla Account: Create fog account and make sure this is the same password for your Management password

Create fog account and make sure this is the same password for your Management password

• Setup Filezilla Folders: Make sure these files $ Directories all have Read, write, delete, append rights

Make sure these files $ Directories all have Read, write, delete, append rights

• Set Ports:

Windows Policies

• Set Local Policies: Set this policy to Enabled

Set this policy to enabled

NFS

• Configure NFS Server: Stop NFS Server Service, Edit Transport Protocol to TCP+UDP, and Start NFS Server Service

Fog Server

• Here is the tricky part.....You need to copy the hidden files on your Linux server to your windows server. These files are located @:

• /images/.mntcheck --> c:\images\
• /images/dev/.mntcheck --> c:\images\dev\

• xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ==> ip address of the windows server

• I mounted the NFS drive and just did a cp command.

• Using terminal or ssh remote:

cd /
sudo mkdir images2
sudo chmod 777 images2
sudo mount xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/images /images2
sudo cp /images/.mntcheck /images2
sudo cp /images/dev/.mntcheck /images2/dev/
sudo umount /images2

Fog Web GUI

• Then continue by adding a storage node just as you would in the wiki.

• I Simply added a Storage Node Definition in its own Storage Group independent to the default storage Group, added it's IP 172.19.102.6 and the path /images/ because it's the path 172.19.102.6 exports also /images/dev/ like an original FOG node does.

Glitches

• At times NFS does not want to replicate (minimally after restarts) so need of restarting the NFS service is required.
• Windows Nodes will not report any information in the Dashboard . This means no bandwidth and no disk information.
  • The only really way to know if it is working is to check the Image Replicator log. It will show something like:

[01-20-15 8:25:38 am]  * [Windows_Node_Name] - SubProcess -> Mirroring directory `[Image1]'

[01-20-15 8:25:38 am]  * [Windows_Node_Name] - SubProcess -> Mirroring directory `[Image2]'

[01-20-15 8:25:38 am]  * [Windows_Node_Name] - SubProcess -> Mirroring directory `[Image3]'

[01-20-15 8:25:38 am]  * [Windows_Node_Name] - SubProcess -> Mirroring directory `[Image4]'

[01-20-15 8:25:38 am]  * [Windows_Node_Name] - SubProcess -> Mirroring directory `[Image5]'

[01-20-15 8:25:38 am]  * [Windows_Node_Name] - SubProcess -> Mirroring directory `[Image6]'

[01-20-15 8:25:38 am]  * [Windows_Node_Name] - SubProcess -> Mirroring directory `[Image7]'

[01-20-15 8:25:38 am]  * [Windows_Node_Name] - SubProcess -> Mirroring directory `postdownloadscripts'

[01-20-15 8:25:38 am]  * [Windows_Node_Name] - SubProcess -> Complete

• If having issues PM Wolfbane8653 in the forum.

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• This is an interesting thread to me as it shows the flexibility of FOG. While cumbersome, it CAN be "ported" to run on nearly any OS. ~ Tom Elliott Senior Developer

--Wolfbane8653.3362 (talk) 18:51, 16 June 2014 (CDT)