SCVMM 2012 Ports Communications for Firewall Configuration

When you install the SCVMM 2012 you can assign some of the ports that it will use for communications and file transfers between the VMM components.

Note: Not all of the ports can be changed through VMM.

The default settings for the ports are listed in the following table:

Connection type	Protocol	Default port	Where to change port setting
SFTP file transfer from VMware ESX Server 3.0 and VMware ESX Server 3.5 hosts	SFTP	22
VMM management server to P2V source agent (control channel)	DCOM	135
VMM management server to Load Balancer	HTTP/HTTPS	80/443	Load balancer configuration provider
VMM management server to WSUS server (data channel)	HTTP/HTTPS	80/8530 (non-SSL), 443/8531 (with SSL)	These ports are the IIS port binding with WSUS. They cannot be changed from VMM.
VMM management server to WSUS server (control channel)	HTTP/HTTPS	80/8530 (non-SSL), 443/8531 (with SSL)	These ports are the IIS port binding with WSUS. They cannot be changed from VMM.
BITS port for VMM transfers (data channel)	BITS	443	During VMM setup
VMM library server to hosts file transfer	BITS	443 (Maximum value: 32768)	During VMM setup
VMM host-to-host file transfer	BITS	443 (Maximum value: 32768)
VMM Self-Service Portal to VMM Self-Service Portal web server	HTTPS	443	During VMM setup
VMware Web Services communication	HTTPS	443	VMM console
SFTP file transfer from VMM management server to VMware ESX Server 3i hosts	HTTPS	443
OOB Connection – SMASH over WS-Man	HTTPS	443	On BMC
VMM management server to in-guest agent (VMM to virtual machine data channel)	HTTPS (using BITS)	443
VMM management server to VMM agent on Windows Server–based host (data channel for file transfers)	HTTPS (using BITS)	443 (Maximum value: 32768)
OOB Connection IPMI	IPMI	623	On BMC
VMM management server to remote Microsoft SQL Server database	TDS	1433
Console connections (RDP) to virtual machines through Hyper-V hosts (VMConnect)	RDP	2179	VMM console
VMM management server to Citrix XenServer host (customization data channel)	iSCSI	3260	On XenServer in transfer VM
Remote Desktop to virtual machines	RDP	3389	On the virtual machine
VMM management server to VMM agent on Windows Server–based host (control channel)	WS-Management	5985	During VMM setup
VMM management server to in-guest agent (VMM to virtual machine control channel)	WS-Management	5985
VMM management server to VMM agent on Windows Server–based host (control channel – SSL)	WS-Management	5986
VMM management server to XenServer host (control channel)	HTTPS	5989	On XenServer host in: /opt/cimserver/cimserver_planned.conf
VMM console to VMM management server	WCF	8100	During VMM setup
VMM Self-Service Portal web server to VMM management server	WCF	8100	During VMM setup
VMM console to VMM management server (HTTPS)	WCF	8101	During VMM setup
Windows PE agent to VMM management server (control channel)	WCF	8101	During VMM setup
VMM console to VMM management server (NET.TCP)	WCF	8102	During VMM setup
WDS provider to VMM management server	WCF	8102	During VMM setup
VMM console to VMM management server (HTTP)	WCF	8103	During VMM setup
Windows PE agent to VMM management server (time sync)	WCF	8103	During VMM setup
VMM management server to Storage Management Service	WMI	Local call
VMM management server to Cluster PowerShell interface	PowerShell	n/a
Storage Management Service to SMI-S Provider	CIM-XML	Provider-specific port
VMM management server to P2V source agent (data channel)	BITS	User-Defined	P2V cmdlet option