What ports (TCP and UDP) are required for remote access to ESXi with vSphere Client?

I manage a large number of ESXi hosts. These are at remote locations and it’s sometimes extremely difficult for me to gain access to the vSphere console unless we have a site-to-site VPN connection with the client.

One of my recent challenges (hah) was remotely accessing and managing an ESXi console via port forwarding. So, even though it’s generally no problem finding information like this, I struggled finding the ports that pertain only to vSphere remote access. The other articles showed me way too much!

So here it is!

Here I’ve port forwarded the ESXi host on a Meraki MX appliance:

– Note that it is always recommended to do this over a secure VPN rather than open the ports to the world. If you are able to, restrict the scope of allowed remote IPs to your own.

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Below lists the TCP and UDP ports, and the purpose and the type of each.