Friday, 16 September 2016

NSX Ports and Protocols Requirements

To have the proper communication between various components of NSX,  certain ports need to be configure here is the list as per NSX 6.2.

















Source
Target
Port
Protocol
Purpose
Client PC
NSX Manager
443
TCP
NSX Manager Administrative Interface
Client PC
NSX Manager
80
TCP
NSX Manager VIB Access
ESXi Host
vCenter Server
80
TCP
ESXi Host Preparation
vCenter Server
ESXi Host
80
TCP
ESXi Host Preparation
ESXi Host
NSX Manager
5671
TCP
RabbitMQ
ESXi Host
NSX Controller
1234
TCP
User World Agent Connection
NSX Controller
NSX Controller
2878, 2888, 3888
TCP
Controller Cluster - State Sync
NSX Controller
NSX Controller
7777
TCP
Inter-Controller RPC Port
NSX Controller
NSX Controller
30865
TCP
Controller Cluster - State Sync
NSX Controller
NTP Time Server
123
TCP
NTP client connection
NSX Manager
NSX Controller
443
TCP
Controller to Manager Communication
NSX Manager
vCenter Server
443
TCP
TCP vSphere Web Access
NSX Manager
vCenter Server
902
TCP
vSphere Web Access
NSX Manager
ESXi Host
443
TCP
Management and provisioning connection
NSX Manager
ESXi Host
902
TCP
Management and provisioning connection
NSX Manager
DNS Server
53
TCP
DNS client connection
NSX Manager
Syslog Server
514
TCP
Syslog connection
NSX Manager
NTP Time Server
123
TCP
NTP client connection
vCenter Server
NSX Manager
80
TCP
TCP Host Preparation
REST Client
NSX Manager
443
TCP
NSX Manager REST API
NSX Controller
NTP Time Server
123
UDP
NTP client connection
NSX Manager
DNS Server
53
UDP
DNS client connection
NSX Manager
Syslog Server
514
UDP
Syslog connection
NSX Manager
NTP Time Server
123
UDP
NTP client connection
VXLAN Tunnel End Point (VTEP)
VXLAN Tunnel End Point (VTEP)
8472 or 4789*
UDP
Transport network encapsulation between VTEPs
ESXi Host
ESXi Host
6999
UDP
ARP on VLAN LIFs
ESXi Host
NSX Manager
8301, 8302
UDP
DVS Sync
NSX Manager
ESXi Host
8301, 8302
UDP
DVS Sync

*In NSX before 6.2.3, the default VTEP port for new installs was 8472. Starting in NSX 6.2.3, the default VTEP port for new installs is 4789. NSX deployments upgraded from a prior version of NSX to NSX 6.2.3 continue using the same port by default. 

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