I want to create a rule on the firewall that allows the infrastructure client to connect to the ESX box on the other side of the Firewall.
i thought it was 443 and 902 TCP but I can seem to connect.
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The default ports that the VirtualCenter Server uses to listen for connections from the
VI Client are ports 80, 443, and 902.
Port 902 is the default port that VirtualCenter uses to send data to the managed hosts.
Ref : http://www.vmware.com/pdf/
make sure there is no Network Address Translation (NAT) firewall between VirtualCenter and the hosts
it will manage.
I think the original question here was about the connection directly to an ESX server from the viclient.
For testing this I also tried manually connecting to both an ESX 3.5 and ESX 3.0.2 server directly with the viclient to see what ports that were in use (see attached pic).
I also tried connecting the viclient to VC 2.5 and it showed only connections on port 443 while console conections are going directly to each ESX server on port 903.
Lars
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by: larstrPosted on 2008-07-01 at 06:05:14ID: 21907333
On ESX 3.0.x the viclient uses tcp port 902 and 903
On ESX 3.5 the viclient uses tcp port 443 and 903
Note also that if you're doing NAT between your Virtual Center server and the ESX servers you'll run into some issues.
Lars