Specifications

Table 3‑13. Ports Required for the vCenter Server Appliance (Continued)

Port Description

8443 Web Services HTTPS. Used for the VMware VirtualCenter Management Web Services.

10080 vCenter Inventory Service HTTP.

10443 vCenter Inventory Service HTTPS.

10109 vCenter Inventory Service database.

514 vSphere Syslog Collector server.

1514 vSphere Syslog Collector server (SSL).

6500 Network coredump server (UDP).

6501 Auto Deploy service.

6502 Auto Deploy management.

9090 vSphere Web Client HTTP.

9443 vSphere Web Client HTTPS.

5480 vCenter Server Appliance Web user interface HTTPS.

5489 vCenter Server Appliance Web user interface CIM service.

22 System port for SSHD.

To have the vCenter Server system use a different port to receive vSphere Client data, see the vCenter Server

and Host Management documentation.

For a discussion of firewall configuration, see the vSphere Security documentation.

Conflict Between vCenter Server and IIS for Port 80

vCenter Server and Microsoft Internet Information Service (IIS) both use port 80 as the default port for direct

HTTP connections. This conflict can cause vCenter Server to fail to restart after the installation of vSphere

Authentication Proxy.

Problem

vCenter Server fails to restart after the installation of vSphere Authentication Proxy is complete.

Cause

If you do not have IIS installed when you install vSphere Authentication Proxy, the installer prompts you to

install IIS. Because IIS uses port 80, which is the default port for vCenter Server direct HTTP connections,

vCenter Server fails to restart after the installation of vSphere Authentication Proxy is complete. See

“Required Ports for vCenter Server,” on page 22.

Solution

To resolve a conflict between IIS and vCenter Server for port 80, take one of the following actions.

Option Description

If you installed IIS before installing

vCenter Server

Change the port for vCenter Server direct HTTP connections from 80 to

another value.

If you installed vCenter Server

before installing IIS

Before restarting vCenter Server, change the binding port of the IIS default

Web site from 80 to another value.

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