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Table 2. Appliance network ports (continued)
Port Service Protocol Access Direction Description
SNMP will not be sent. The default port
set for SNMP is 162.
443 HTTPS TCP Bi-directional Secure HTTP traffic to PowerStore
Manager. If closed, communication with
the appliance will be unavailable.
500 IPsec (IKEv2) UDP Bi-directional To make IPSec work through your
firewalls, open UDP port 500 and permit
IP protocol numbers 50 and 51 on both
inbound and outbound firewall filters. UDP
Port 500 should be opened to allow
Internet Security Association and Key
Management Protocol (ISAKMP) traffic
to be forwarded through your firewalls. IP
protocol ID 50 should be set to allow
IPSec Encapsulating Security Protocol
(ESP) traffic to be forwarded. IP protocol
ID 51 should be set to allow
Authentication Header (AH) traffic to be
forwarded. If closed, IPsec connection
between PowerStore appliances will be
unavailable.
3033 Import TCP/UDP Outbound Required for storage import from legacy
EqualLogic Peer Storage and Compellent
Storage Center systems.
3260 iSCSI TCP
● Inbound for
Host and ESXi
host access
● Bi-directional for
replication
● Outbound for
storage import
Required to provide the following access
to iSCSI services:
● External host iSCSI access
● External or PowerStore embedded
ESXi host iSCSI access
● Inter cluster access for replication
● Storage import access from legacy
EqualLogic Peer Storage, Compellent
Storage Center, Unity, and VNX2
systems
If closed, iSCSI services will be
unavailable. Used by Data mobility to
support reasonable replication
performance on low latency connection.
3261 Data mobility TCP Bi-directional Used by Data mobility to support
reasonable replication performance on
high latency connection.
5353 Multicast DNS
(mDNS)
UDP Bi-directional Multicast DNS query. If closed, mDNS
name resolution will not work.
8443 VASA,
SupportAssist
TCP
● Inbound for
VASA
● Outbound for
SupportAssist
● Required for the VASA Vendor
Provider for VASA 3.0.
● Required for the related SupportAssist
Connect Home functions.
8443, 50443,
55443, or 60443
Windows import
host agent, Linux
import host agent,
or VMware import
host agent
TCP Outbound One of these ports must be open when
importing data storage from legacy
storage systems.
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