I have a firewall between my ESX hosts and my Virtual Center Manager. I opened the ports below from the documentation file for ESX3i. I can add the new ESX hosts and configure them for a few minutes but then they marked as not responding. If I remove and re-add them I get the same result. Does anyone know what monitoring port I am missing?
80 | HTTP access. The default non-secure TCP Web port typically used in conjunction with port 443 as a front end for access to ESX Server 3i networks from the Web. Port 80 redirects traffic to an HTTPS landing page (port 443) from which you launch your virtual machine console. WS-Management uses port 80. | Incoming TCP | |
427 | The CIM client uses the Service Location Protocol, version 2 (SLPv2) to find CIM servers. | Incoming and outgoing UDP | |
443 | HTTPS access. The default SSL Web port. Use Port 443 for the following: | • | VI Client access to the VirtualCenter Server. |
• | Direct VI Client access to ESX Server 3i hosts. | ||
• | WS-Management. | ||
• | VMware Update Manager. | ||
• | VMware Converter. | ||
Incoming TCP |
902 |
Authentication traffic and remote console traffic. Use Port 902 for the following:
• | VirtualCenter Server access to ESX Server 3i hosts. VirtualCenter Server sends UDP messages from ESX Server 3i hosts on port 902. |
• | ESX Server 3i host access to other ESX Server 3i hosts for migration and provisioning. ESX Server 3i sends UDP messages to VirtualCenter Server on ports 902. |
• | VI Client access to virtual machine consoles. |
Incoming and outgoing TCP, outgoing UDP |
2049 |
Transactions from your NFS storage devices. This port is used on the VMkernel interface.|
Incoming and outgoing TCP|
2050-2250 |
Traffic between ESX Server 3i hosts for VMware High Availability (HA) and EMC Autostart Manager. These ports are managed by the VMKernel interface.|
Outgoing TCP, incoming and outgoing UDP|
3260 |
Transactions from your iSCSI storage devices. This port is used on the VMkernel interface.|
Outgoing TCP|
5900-5906 |
RFB protocol which is used by management tools such as VNC.|
Incoming and outgoing TCP|
5988 |
CIM XML transactions over HTTPS.|
Incoming and outgoing TCP|
5989 |
CIM XML transactions over HTTP.|
Incoming and outgoing TCP|
8000 |
Incoming requests from VMotion.|
Incoming and outgoing TCP|
8042-8045 |
Traffic between ESX Server 3i hosts for HA and EMC Autostart Manager.|
Outgoing TCP, incoming and outgoing UDP|
27000 |
License transactions from ESX Server 3i to the license server (lmgrd.exe)|
Outgoing TCP|
27010 |
License transactions from ESX Server 3i to the license server (vmwarelm.exe).|
Outgoing TCP|