TCP and UDP Ports required to access VMware vCenter Server, VMware ESXi and ESX hosts, and other network components (1012382) Purpose These services and agents are commonly present in a VMware vSphere environment: CIM HTTP server (insecure service) CIM HTTPS server FTP client (insecure service) FTP server (insecure service) iSCSI software client NFS client (insecure service) NFS server (insecure service) NIS client NTP client SMB client (insecure service) SNMP server SSH client SSH server Syslog client Telnet