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Table 23. Ports Used by the vSphere Replication Server (Continued)
Source Target Port Protocol Description
vSphere Replication
Management server
vSphere Replication
server
8123 SOAP Intra-site management
trac from the
vSphere Replication
appliance or
vSphere Replication
Management server to
the
vSphere Replication
servers.
ESXi host at the source
site
vSphere Replication
server
31031 Initial and outgoing
replication trac from
the ESXi host at the
source site to the
vSphere Replication
appliance or
vSphere Replication
server at the target
site.
When you create a connection to the cloud, the vCloud Tunneling Agent in the vSphere Replication
appliance creates a tunnel to secure the transfer of replication data to your cloud organization.
Table 24. Ports Required for Cloud Replications
Source Destination Port Protocol Description
The ESXi host at the
source site
The vCenter Server
at the source site
80 TCP The vCenter Server
reverse proxy
forwards VIB
(vCloud Air Disaster
Recovery rewall
rules) download
request to the
vSphere Replication
appliance.
The
vSphere Replication
appliance at the source
site
vCloud API 443 REST over HTTPS vSphere Replication
appliance connects to
this port to send
replication data to a
cloud organization.
The ESXi host at the
source site
The
vSphere Replication
appliance at the
source site
10000-10010 TCP The vCloud Tunneling
Agent opens one of
these ports on the
vSphere Replication
appliance. ESXi hosts
connect to that port to
send replication data
to a cloud
organization.
Open Source and Third-Party Components
For the complete text of the open source licenses, a list of all open source and third-party components, and
the open source code used in vSphere Replication, you can go to
hp://www.vmware.com/download/open_source.html and see the VMware vSphere Replication Open Source
and Licenses section under the VMware vSphere Open Source link. If certain open source license requires it, the
vSphere Replication Open Source Disclosure Package (ODP) contains text les with instructions how to
build and replace the software libraries.
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