SCVMM 2012 Ports Communications for Firewall Configuration
Introduction
When you install the SCVMM 2012 you can assign some of the ports that it will use for communications and file transfers between the VMM components.
Details
The default settings for the ports are listed in the following table:
| Connection type | Protocol | Default port | Where to change port setting |
| SFTP file transfer from VMware ESX Server 3.0 and VMware ESX Server 3.5 hosts | SFTP | 22 | |
| VMM management server to P2V source agent (control channel) | DCOM | 135 | |
| VMM management server to Load Balancer | HTTP/HTTPS | 80/443 | Load balancer configuration provider |
| VMM management server to WSUS server (data channel) | HTTP/HTTPS | 80/8530 (non-SSL), 443/8531 (with SSL) |
These ports are the IIS port binding with WSUS. They cannot be changed from VMM. |
| VMM management server to WSUS server (control channel) | HTTP/HTTPS | 80/8530 (non-SSL), 443/8531 (with SSL) | These ports are the IIS port binding with WSUS. They cannot be changed from VMM. |
| BITS port for VMM transfers (data channel) | BITS | 443 | During VMM setup |
| VMM library server to hosts file transfer | BITS | 443 (Maximum value: 32768) | During VMM setup |
| VMM host-to-host file transfer | BITS | 443 (Maximum value: 32768) |
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| VMM Self-Service Portal to VMM Self-Service Portal web server | HTTPS | 443 | During VMM setup |
| VMware Web Services communication | HTTPS | 443 | VMM console |
| SFTP file transfer from VMM management server to VMware ESX Server 3i hosts | HTTPS | 443 | |
| OOB Connection – SMASH over WS-Man | HTTPS | 443 | On BMC |
| VMM management server to in-guest agent (VMM to virtual machine data channel) | HTTPS (using BITS) |
443 | |
| VMM management server to VMM agent on Windows Server–based host (data channel for file transfers) | HTTPS (using BITS) |
443 (Maximum value: 32768) |
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| OOB Connection IPMI | IPMI | 623 | On BMC |
| VMM management server to remote Microsoft SQL Server database | TDS | 1433 | |
| Console connections (RDP) to virtual machines through Hyper-V hosts (VMConnect) | RDP | 2179 | VMM console |
| VMM management server to Citrix XenServer host (customization data channel) | iSCSI | 3260 | On XenServer in transfer VM |
| Remote Desktop to virtual machines | RDP | 3389 | On the virtual machine |
| VMM management server to VMM agent on Windows Server–based host (control channel) | WS-Management | 5985 | During VMM setup |
| VMM management server to Hyper-V Host (VMM agent) | TCP | WinRM/RPC/NetBIOS/SMB (over TCP) 80/135/139/445 | During VMM Setup Wizard & agent upgrade ? |
| VMM management server to in-guest agent (VMM to virtual machine control channel) | WS-Management | 5985 | |
| VMM management server to VMM agent on Windows Server–based host (control channel – SSL) | WS-Management | 5986 | |
| VMM management server to XenServer host (control channel) | HTTPS | 5989 | On XenServer host in: /opt/cimserver/cimserver_planned.conf |
| VMM console to VMM management server | WCF | 8100 | During VMM setup |
| VMM Self-Service Portal web server to VMM management server | WCF | 8100 | During VMM setup |
| VMM console to VMM management server (HTTPS) | WCF | 8101 | During VMM setup |
| Windows PE agent to VMM management server (control channel) | WCF | 8101 | During VMM setup |
| VMM console to VMM management server (NET.TCP) | WCF | 8102 | During VMM setup |
| WDS provider to VMM management server | WCF | 8102 | During VMM setup |
| VMM console to VMM management server (HTTP) | WCF | 8103 | During VMM setup |
| Windows PE agent to VMM management server (time sync) | WCF | 8103 | During VMM setup |
| VMM management server to Storage Management Service | WMI | Local call |
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| VMM management server to Cluster PowerShell interface | PowerShell | n/a | |
| Storage Management Service to SMI-S Provider | CIM-XML | Provider-specific port |
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| VMM management server to P2V source agent (data channel) | BITS | User-Defined | P2V cmdlet option |
Note: Not all of the ports can be changed through VMM.