For an Organization , As a Vmware admin , the most common task will be deploying Server , Creating a new VM , cloning a new VM
As a best practice , the most common ports that are allowed for a VM to communicate with application like WSUS, antivirus , RDP, Monitoring tools are below .
this below table will be handy for an Administrator
| Source IP | Destination IP | Destination Server Name | Destination Port | Unidirectional/Bidirectional |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANY NEW VM | Your Domain controller IP | LDAP/AD/LDAPS | 389 636 3268 3269 | Unidirectional |
| Anti-virus server | EX: Symentec update | 8014 80 443 39999 | Unidirectional | |
| WSUS | Windows update | http | Unidirectional | |
| SMTO | Mail server | SMTP | Unidirectional | |
| NTP | NTP server | NTP | Unidirectional | |
| Monitoning server | Solarwind | 10050 10051 | Unidirectional | |
| RDP | Terminal Server | 3389 ICMP | Unidirectional | |
| server | KMS | KMS server | 1688 | Unidirectional |