Andyg

[AndygRomo]

Hi I need to set 2 new firewall rules on the esx server 6.5 they are TCP rules port 135 and 445 but the web client does not let me add these rules and they are not in the predefined rules ?

can anyone help ?

[Finikiez]

Hi!

New firewall rules can be created only from CLI

Despite of the title KB is applicable to 6.0/6.5 as well VMware Knowledge Base

[MBreidenbach0]

Why ? These are CIFS networking ports AFAIK and not used by ESXi management and so not needed for ESXi management network firewall (which doesn't filter VM traffic)

[peetz]

Hi Andy,

there is no service running inside ESXi that listens on the SMB ports, so there is no point to make the respective firewall rule available.

Just curious: why do you want to open these ports for ESXi?

- Andreas

[AndygRomo]

Hi Peetz im setting up Paralles 2x VDI and the ports i need are not auto set up on the server 

[peetz]

Hi Andy,

Parallels VDI does not install anythin on the ESXi host(s). The ports 135/445 need to be open on the Windows machines that are part of the deployment.

- Andreas