Windows Storage Node

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

• 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

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

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.

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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)