Quick Post - PowerCLI Firewall Requirements

Sat, 22 Sep 2018 02:17:29 +0000

Last night I was working in an environment that has a reasonably well locked down NSX distributed firewall, and I was having some issues with PowerCLI. PowerCLI 10.2 on Windows, connecting to vCenter Server 6.7, to be specific. Port 443 was allowed from the jump host to vCenter Server, but I was seeing some odd issues still.

I was trying to run an as built report for the environment, but I could not seem to establish a connection to NSX manager when running the script, and VUM cmdlets that are called in the script were also failing, such as:

Firewall on Matt Allford

Quick Post - PowerCLI Firewall Requirements