I did a trace the other day to open the correct ports from cloudstack to
vcenter, and I found the mgmt servers and systems vm's talking to vcenter over
443 only...
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:17:12 +0100
> Subject: Re: interactions Cloudstack Vmware
> From: saidi.mohamed.ali...@gmail.com
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
>
> thank you for informations.
>
> Exactly i would like to know what protocol vcenter uses to send reponse to
> cloudstack.
> Cloudstack send requests via https but reponse is it on https too?
>
> Regards
>
>
> 2014-04-14 17:28 GMT+01:00 ilya musayev <ilya.mailing.li...@gmail.com>:
>
> > Interaction happens on several layers.
> >
> > Using VMware SDK, CloudStack Management Server initially talks to vCenter
> > over 443. However, you will also see some interaction between Storage VM as
> > well as Proxy VM to vCenter and ESXi hosts directly.
> >
> > Are you experiencing any issues or is this for firewall/security review?
> >
> > If you are attempting to troubleshoot the issue, the easiest way is to
> > look at the logs as well as "netstat -antup | grep -i time", look for all
> > unestablished connections to see where the flow goes and what needs to be
> > open. I do have a doc on communication flow, it may take a week or little
> > longer for me to post it online, since it is on one of the hard drives @
> > work, and i'm working remotely this week.
> >
> > If you need any help in the meantime, let me know,
> >
> > Regards
> > ilya
> >
> >
> > On 4/9/14, 7:52 AM, Mohamed Ali Saidi wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for your response.
> >> To configure vcenter on cloudstack we don't need to know interactions
> >> between them , but i need informations for research issues.
> >>
> >>
> >> 2014-04-09 13:48 GMT+02:00 Erik Weber <terbol...@gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Mohamed Ali Saidi <
> >>> saidi.mohamed.ali...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm searching in the internet for interaction issues (Ports, protocol
> >>>>
> >>> ,...
> >>>
> >>>> ) between cloudstack and vmware (vcenter,..) but i can't find any
> >>>> helpful
> >>>> docs.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I believe most of the traffic happens on HTTPS to vcenter.
> >>> we put the vcenter in our management network, so didn't really have to
> >>> puzzle with openings.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Erik Weber
> >>>
> >>>
> >
