Red Hat and Virtual Machine

[Elena_V]

Hi,

I have a Virtual machine with Red Hat OS and I would like to know if there are any way to free the ports automatically with vmware virtual machine when I reboot it.

I have ESX3.5 Update 2.

Thanks and sorry for my bad english.

Regards,

Elena.

[wila]

Hi Elena,

What do you mean with "Free the ports automatically" ? Which ports?

Do you want to restart the Red Hat Virtual Machine on a host reboot? Is that your question? If so, then yes you can do that.

In the Virtual Infrastructure Client, when tthe host is selected, configuration tab page, Virtual Machine Startup / Shutdown.

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Wil

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[mnasir · Accepted solution]

Hi Elena,

I am not sure what you mean by free the ports, however I am running many redhat rhel 4/5 on my esx 3.5 U4 host, and they are running great. If you want to open ports on the redhat guest, then just use the systemconfig utility on the Linux shell to open the ports. You can also disable the iptables. Remember if ports are blocked in the esx kernel, that doesn't have any effect on the guest. I will recommend only open ports on the guest that you will need for your apps.

[Elena_V]

Thanks a lot for your answers!