I received a great email from Dudley Smith today, a VMware TAM. He has created a fantastic diagram of the traffic interactions between all the vSphere components. I’ve written before about the complexities of this before, and how the existing documentation doesn’t clearly explain the details.  Dudley has very kindly allowed me to share this with everyone.

ConnectionsPorts-v210.pdf

 

4 Responses to Firewall port connection diagram

  1. That’s really nice and much more detailled than anything I have seen so far.

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  3. Tony says:

    very useful, thanks!

  4. Man! Its like you read my mind! You seem to know a lot about this, just like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you could do with some pictures to drive the message home a bit, but other than that, this is helpful blog post. A outstanding read. Ill certainly be back.

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