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You’re creating a list of ports you need the network admin to open on the firewall. What is port 902 used for on vCenter?

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Question added by Shaik Tharim Kharni , IT Solutions Professional , GulfNet Solutions Company Limited
Date Posted: 2016/06/02
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by Deleted user

Port 902 is the default port vCenter uses to send data to hosts managed by vCenter.

Kashif Hussain
by Kashif Hussain , Lecturer , GC Universty Faisalabad

Its TCP/UDP port.

This is the default port used by the vCenter Server system to send data to managed hosts. Managed hosts also send a regular heartbeat over UDP port 902 to the vCenter Server system. This port must not be blocked by firewalls between the server and the hosts or between hosts.

Shaftain Wasif
by Shaftain Wasif , System Administrator , Borealis Projects Ltd.

This uses TCP/UDP protocol to manage the hosts.

It is the default port for Vcenter

Khalid ElGhazouli
by Khalid ElGhazouli , Digital Transformation and IT Senior Manager , Sky Logistics and Sky Ports

Required for data transport during cloning of system to be converted to target ESXi/ESX Host

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