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Table Of Contents
- VMware ESXi Upgrade
- Contents
- About VMware ESXi Upgrade
- Introduction to vSphere Upgrade
- Upgrading ESXi Hosts
- ESXi Requirements
- Before Upgrading ESXi Hosts
- Upgrading Hosts That Have Third-Party Custom VIBs
- Media Options for Booting the ESXi Installer
- Download and Burn the ESXi Installer ISO Image to a CD or DVD
- Format a USB Flash Drive to Boot the ESXi Installation or Upgrade
- Create a USB Flash Drive to Store the ESXi Installation Script or Upgrade Script
- Create an Installer ISO Image with a Custom Installation or Upgrade Script
- PXE Booting the ESXi Installer
- Installing and Booting ESXi with Software FCoE
- Using Remote Management Applications
- Download the ESXi Installer
- Upgrade Hosts Interactively
- Installing or Upgrading Hosts by Using a Script
- Enter Boot Options to Start an Installation or Upgrade Script
- Boot Options
- About Installation and Upgrade Scripts
- Install or Upgrade ESXi from a CD or DVD by Using a Script
- Install or Upgrade ESXi from a USB Flash Drive by Using a Script
- Performing a Scripted Installation or Upgrade of ESXi by Using PXE to Boot the Installer
- PXE Booting the ESXi Installer
- Upgrading Hosts by Using esxcli Commands
- VIBs, Image Profiles, and Software Depots
- Understanding Acceptance Levels for VIBS and Hosts
- Determine Whether an Update Requires the Host to Be in Maintenance Mode or to Be Rebooted
- Place a Host in Maintenance Mode
- Update a Host with Individual VIBs
- Upgrade or Update a Host with Image Profiles
- Update ESXi Hosts by Using Zip Files
- Remove VIBs from a Host
- Adding Third-Party Extensions to Hosts with an esxcli Command
- Perform a Dry Run of an esxcli Installation or Upgrade
- Display the Installed VIBs and Profiles That Will Be Active After the Next Host Reboot
- Display the Image Profile and Acceptance Level of the Host
- After You Upgrade ESXi Hosts
- Using vSphere Auto Deploy to Reprovision Hosts
- Collect Logs to Troubleshoot ESXi Hosts
The following table lists the firewalls for services that are installed by default. If you install other VIBs on
your host, additional services and firewall ports might become available. The information is primarily for
services that are visible in the vSphere Web Client but the table includes some other ports as well.
Table 3‑3. Incoming Firewall Connections
Port
Protoc
ol Service Description
5988 TCP CIM Server Server for CIM (Common Information Model).
5989 TCP CIM Secure Server Secure server for CIM.
427 TCP,
UDP
CIM SLP The CIM client uses the Service Location Protocol, version 2 (SLPv2) to find
CIM servers.
546 DHCPv6 DHCP client for IPv6.
8301, 8302 UDP DVSSync DVSSync ports are used for synchronizing states of distributed virtual ports
between hosts that have VMware FT record/replay enabled. Only hosts that
run primary or backup virtual machines must have these ports open. On hosts
that are not using VMware FT these ports do not have to be open.
902 TCP NFC Network File Copy (NFC) provides a file-type-aware FTP service for vSphere
components. ESXi uses NFC for operations such as copying and moving data
between datastores by default.
12345, 23451 UDP vSANClustering
Service
VMware vSAN Cluster Monitoring and Membership Directory Service. Uses
UDP-based IP multicast to establish cluster members and distribute vSAN
metadata to all cluster members. If disabled, vSAN does not work.
68 UDP DHCP Client DHCP client for IPv4.
53 UDP DNS Client DNS client.
8200, 8100,
8300
TCP,
UDP
Fault Tolerance Traffic between hosts for vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT).
6999 UDP NSX Distributed
Logical Router
Service
NSX Virtual Distributed Router service. The firewall port associated with this
service is opened when NSX VIBs are installed and the VDR module is
created. If no VDR instances are associated with the host, the port does not
have to be open.
This service was called NSX Distributed Logical Router in earlier versions of
the product.
2233 TCP vSAN Transport vSAN reliable datagram transport. Uses TCP and is used for vSAN storage
IO. If disabled, vSAN does not work.
161 UDP SNMP Server Allows the host to connect to an SNMP server.
22 TCP SSH Server Required for SSH access.
8000 TCP vMotion Required for virtual machine migration with vMotion. ESXi hosts listen on port
8000 for TCP connections from remote ESXi hosts for vMotion traffic.
902, 443 TCP vSphere Web Client Client connections
8080 TCP vsanvp vSAN VASA Vendor Provider. Used by the Storage Management Service
(SMS) that is part of vCenter to access information about vSAN storage
profiles, capabilities, and compliance. If disabled, vSAN Storage Profile Based
Management (SPBM) does not work.
80 TCP vSphere Web Access Welcome page, with download links for different interfaces.
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