We are looking to implement VMWare View 4 for a number of users at a Partner Site. Since this site is not on our WAN, we need to make some firewall changes, and I'm somewhat confused over which ports need to be opened.
The assumption was that we would need ports 80 and/or 443 for the remote PC to connect to the View Manager, and 3389 for connection between the Remote PC and the Virtual Desktop. But when I connect from a test machine here in my office, I see the following ports open:
TCP 443 from the PC to the View Manager Server
TCP 3389 from the View Manager Server to the Virtual Desktop
Nothing at all between the PC and the Virtual Desktop
Is this correct? Is all of the raffic going from the PC to the View Manager Server over SSL, and then to/from the Vitrual Machine? Or am I not seeing things correctly? FYI, I am using sysinternals TCPView utility to tell which ports are connected on the various machines.
If we can get away with only needing to open one hole in the firewall (Port 443 for the View Manager Server) that will make the Security folks very happy, but this seems contrary to the documentation I've read...
