powercli firewall ports

[bradley4681]

if i have a vCenter behind a firewall and want to run powercli scripts against it from outside this firewall, what ports need to be open? does it use 443 to hit vCenter?

fyi this is on a private network so i'm not trying to access a VC over the internet, it's an internel firewalled network.

[admin]

Hello

Good afternoon from Canada

It should use port 443 to make a connection with vCenter.

Regards

[LucD]

I suspect that if you want to use some of the guest cmdlets like Invoke-VMScript or Copy-VMGuestFile, you would also need port 902 to the ESX server that hosts the guest.

[bradley4681]

even if your only connecting through the vCenter and not hosts directly?

[LucD · Accepted solution]

I think so because those cmdlets use the VIX that is installed on the client where you run the scripts.

[bradley4681]

you were correct on the ports!