Basically rumours are going round that VMware will be doing away with the client software, and i want to be able to use an ssh tunnel to open the necessary ports? and point them at the correct place? whether that be the esxi host or the vcenter running as a VM? Also would i need to NAT them on the router seeing as im using SSH? Any suggestions please post? I would be very grateful!
VMware has made no secret about their plan to move vSphere administration fully into the vSphere Web Client and to ultimately retire the good ol' vSphere Client.
If I understand your question correctly, you are wanting to know what the vSphere Client ports are so that you can create an appropriate SSH tunnel. The required vSphere Client ports can be found in the vSphere documentation. In this case lets look at the vSphere 5.5. docs: TCP and UDP Ports for the vSphere Client
According to the docs you need to tunnel ports 443 TCP, 902 TCP/UDP and 903 TCP. You'll need to establish this tunnel primarily between the system running vSphere client and the vCenter Server and vSphere Update Manager servers. You can also establish this tunnel with any ESXi hosts you need to administer using the vSphere Client, but ideally you should be relying on vCenter Server for managing the hosts.
You haven't provided enough information about your specific network scenario to help determine whether you need to NAT any of this traffic, however in a typical business networking environment it's not likely required.
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please let me know where have to go from 4.1 .
you are right you need to open port and forward to respective host .
please share the log or screen shot when doing that .
