Abbott Internet Consultants

Sometimes it is the blindingly obvious that gets you.  After running into issues with creating a mount point for ISO images to be used by the host servers, we ran into a couple of problems.

Firstly, -t smbfs now appears to be deprecated, so -t cifs should be used instead.

Secondly, smbclient traffic is blocked by the firewall by default, and all you will get when trying to make the connection is:
mount error 111 = Connection refused

To resolve this, simply go into the configuration for the host, security profile and make sure to enable smbclient.

First installation of production ESX4 is almost completed now for a client in Washington DC.  I’ll be adding more notes documenting the following:

• general installation and configuration
• iSCSI & EqualLogic setup and performance tuning
• Alerting and management
• Troubleshooting