ESXi 4 - what ports for remote console?

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heelix

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I'm new to this, and playing in my home environment. I'm looking for the ports I would need to allow myself to use the VMWare vSphere client outside my firewall. I think that is stock SSL - so 443 would need to be open. Is that it?

(google hints at yes, which probably means I have something else horked up)
 
well, without 80 and 443 you won't get the client to talk at all ;) 902/903 are the MKS connection for the console.
 
Another dumb question - port 22 only if I wanted remote SSH? I was not planning to use (at this point) anything other than the vSphere client thing, so not sure if I need a secure shell if I'm not using it for anything command line. (That, and I've already got port 22 mapped to one of my other Linux boxes...)
 
You don't if you don't want it - and you can shut off SSH in the firewall as well, if you'd like. Technically, SSH is not enabled on ESXi anyway.
 
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