Hi guys,
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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| VMM management server to Cluster PowerShell interface | PowerShell | n/a | |
| Storage Management Service to SMI-S Provider | CIM-XML | Provider-specific port |
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| VMM management server to P2V source agent (data channel) | BITS | User-Defined | P2V cmdlet option |