SOLVED: Ports needed for vmware import?

[Proximate]

What ports would need to be open between vmware and proxmox to import vms from ESX?
I can't seem to find this anywhere.

 

[gurubert]

You cannot import VMs via a simple TCP connection into Proxmox.

You need to export the vrtual disk image, convert it and change some settings inside the VM. For more details see https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE#Virtual-to-Virtual_.28V2V.29

 

[Proximate]

Well, it seemed pretty simple and to be just a TCP connection.

Import to proxmox host;
# ovftool vi://root@192.168.1.43:443/c7-test .

Then imported it to Proxmox service as a vm;
# qm importovf 103 c7-test/c7-test.ovf local-zfs

The problem is, it's not clear if it only used port 443 or something else since I was on the LAN at the time.

 

[gurubert]

OK, with this tool it is obviously port 443 on the ESXi host that has to be accessible from the Proxmox node.

 

[Proximate]

Yes, for sure port 443 but since it was on the LAN when I first did imports, I wondered if maybe there were other ports being used that I just didn't see.

I'll give it a try and if that's all it takes, I'll update this too.

Thanks .

 

[Proximate]

Yup, that's all it takes, easy.