Machines that you plan to designate as migration sources or targets, such as production workloads and virtual machine servers, must have certain prerequisite software components installed and specific ports for transport layer protocols open. The following sections summarize these requirements.
The following are software, network, and firewall requirements that systems in your environment must meet for the discovery and inventory process. For information about the actual discovery procedures, see Discovering Source Workloads and Migration Targets
in your User Guide.
Table 2-2 Network Communication Prerequisites for Discovery Operations
System |
Prerequisites |
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Portability Suite Server |
Open port 80 (HTTP). Required to maintain communication among Portability Suite Server, sources, and targets. |
Microsoft* Windows* Server 2008 and Windows Vista* sources |
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All supported Windows sources prior to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista |
Windows NT* Server does not include WMI as part of the default installation. Obtain the WMI Core from the Microsoft Web site. If WMI is not installed, discovery of the workload fails. WMI (RPC/DCOM) can use TCP ports 135 and 445 as well as random or dynamically assigned ports above 1024. If problems occur during the discovery process, consider temporarily placing the workload in a DMZ or temporarily opening the firewalled ports for the discovery process only. For additional information, such as guidance in limiting the port range for DCOM and RPC, see the following Microsoft technical articles. |
All Linux* sources VMware* ESX Server 2.5 VMware ESX Server 3.0.x Citrix* Xen* Server |
Secure Shell (SSH) server Open port 22 (TCP) For ESX 2.5 and 3.0, use an account other than root unless the SSH server is configured for root access. For information on how to use a non-root account, see Knowledge Base Article Q20711. Custom SSH ports are supported. Specify the port number during discovery. |
VMware Server |
VMcom API (optional VMware Server installation component). Also install on the Portability Suite Server host. See Knowledge Base Article Q20297. |
VMware ESX Server 3.5, ESX 4; ESXi; vCenter Server |
Open port 443 (HTTPS) |
All Solaris source workloads and targets |
The user must be assigned a primary administrator profile through Solaris RBAC (role-based access control). See Knowledge Base Article 20711. |
The following are firewall requirements that systems in your environment must meet for problem-free operation during workload migration and protection jobs.
Table 2-3 Network Communication Prerequisites for Workload Portability and Protection Operations