VMware vSphere and your firewall

As some of you may know, I’ve started working for my new employer last month.

I’m now busy with my so called Masterclass and for that I’m attending a lot of courses. A couple of weeks ago I attended a five-day VMware vSphere course and in a while I will take an exam and try to get my VCP4 certification.

At home I’ve created a labsetup so I can fiddle around with ESXi, vCenter server, etc. without breaking any setups. Today I was trying to get a connection to my vCenter server from work but that involves opening a couple of ports in your firewall or, in my case, tunneling a few towards my home. At first it was unclear to me which ports should and shouldn’t be opened. I found this page which provides this pdf. This is a great diagram mentioning all ports for all connections typically used in your vSphere environment.

I found this to be very usefull and therefore like to share it with you as well.

 

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