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Introduction

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.

Details

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 Hyper-V Host (VMM agent)
 TCP
WinRM/RPC/NetBIOS/SMB (over TCP)
80/135/139/445
  
During VMM Setup Wizard & agent upgrade ?
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

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