Hello everyone,
I have a quick question to ask as I am a student and new to the whole world of virtualization. I have scoured the net in search of an answer to my question before I decided to come to this site and I think I can't find the answer because I maybe asking the question in the wrong way. Here is the task that I am trying to accomplish:
I have a WRT54G3G-ST Linksys Router in my home and I have host machine set up with a static address. I want to be able to access my VM's from a remote locations when I am out and about(StarBucks). When I am setting up port forwarding in my router, what ports do I need to have open. As or right now I am playing around with the DMZ option in my router, but from what I am reading that will expose my Host machine completely to the Internet and that is what I want, but is it the safest way to go about it or would just opening specific ports be best?
By the way, I will be connection to the Host via Vsphere Client only.
Thanks for any suggestions that can be provided.
Check Required Ports or Network Port Diagram.
BTW, I would NEVER espoxe ESXi management interface to the "wild". It was never meant to be! If you want to manage your host over public network, use VPN (either one of VM, or even better dedicated vpn-server/firewall).
Hi,
I see here that you have a LINKSYS WRT54G3G-ST router !!! Did you try DD-wrt/openwrt ?
For accessing your Vhost from internet, you can access it directly, OR you can forward RDP(port 3889) to a VM ip inside the host and run Vclient from it (faster responses).
You need to point your changing internet IP to a DynDNS/No-ip address http://geekswithblogs.net/saifkhan/archive/2008/12/28/setup-dyndns-dynamic-dns-on-a-linksys-wrt54g-r.... (( NOTE: DYNDNS is no more free, you can try No-ip or others but you might check if your router support it)
There is lotta Options that depends on your router capabilities, that's why i Asked you about DD-wrt ( contains no-ip,WOL,QOS... ).
Cheers.