firewall concept of ESX 3i

[sandya]

Hi,

I am trying to find out way of open and closed ports of ESX 3i server as we check out ESX 3x server.So i tried with 2 ways

1)esxcfg-firewall (But it did n't appeared in console)

2)iptables -l (But it did n't appeared in console)

Security profile of vi client ESX 3.x is different from 3i incase of firewall configuration.

Please clarify me following:

whether firewall concept is their is ESX 3i.If so,what is the way to check the firewall allowed ports.

I did n't found much information in google.

Thanks in advance

[AndreTheGiant]

ESXi lack of Service Console, so lack ALSO of the iptables part.

Andre

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[sandya]

It means ESX 3i does not have service console.Their is no concept of firewall.

In esx 3i we can only start/stop following 2 services

1)Vmware virtual center agent

2)NTP daemon

[kjb007]

That is correct. What exactly are you trying to "open up"?

-KjB

VMware vExpert

[sandya]

thanks for all your replies.

Conclusion:ESX 3i does not have any firewall,because it does not have any service console.Following ports are opened by default.

ssh,ftp ,vi....etc

[Dave_Mishchenko]

ESXi doesn't come with SSH enabled and if you want FTP you have to add files for it (and both items would be unsupported)