We are getting ready to deploy vCM, and I am trying to understand the use cases for each of the ports listed as being needed (or should I say, potentially needed). I got the entire list of ports from the 5.5 Security Guide (couldn’t find one for 5.8, but I assume the ports are all the same), however, it doesn’t sat how vCM uses them, it basically just gives a definition of what the port is (i.e., UDP 162 is SNMP). It doesn’t say how it uses the ports, whether or not they are communication between the collector and the agent, collector and the database, or only used for certain types of servers. Since we have a ton of different network zones, I will need to make a fairly robust firewall request, but I will also need to justify the need of every connection. I can’t just say I need FTP to everything (for example) without saying why I need it, and they will almost certainly want supporting documentation, and the security guide isn’t going to be specific enough to satisfy the request.
Is this something anyone happens to have or knows where to find? A diagram with interactions and port specifications would be great, but a list with a good description would be more than satisfactory.
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcenter-configuration-manager-55-security-guide.pdf - Page 84