HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Recover User's Guide (T5437-96008, November 2009)

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● Port 22—Used by Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Infrastructure to

communicate with the VMware ESX Host(s) via SSH. Also used by each ESX host

to connect to each other. This port cannot be changed.

If any of the ports in your environment differ from those listed here, you will have to

provide the correct port number when setting up connections to the various servers.

When the Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Infrastructure console and service are

installed on separate machines, the console uses Microsoft .NET remoting to

communicate with the service. Microsoft .NET remoting uses random port assignments

for communication from the service to the console. For that reason, the console should

not be separated from the service by a firewall.

Enabling ports

You must enable port 22 for the SSH client and server on both the source and target

ESX servers. Follow these steps to open the SSH port on the ESX server's firewall

configuration.

1. Using VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client, select the host ESX server.

2. On the Configuration tab for that server, select Security Profile.

3. In the Firewall Properties window, make sure that SSH Client is selected, then

click OK.

4. Verify that the Configuration tab shows that SSH Clientis enabled for the host on

port 22.

5. Repeat steps3-4 for the SSH Server.

Next step: Configure VMware ESX server login

Configuring VMware ESX server login

Before you use Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Infrastructure, you must configure

your VMware ESX servers to allow either root or non-root login. You will need to do this

on both the source and target servers.

Note:

VirtualCenter is required when configuring protections using non-root

credentials. If VirtualCenter is not being used, the root account credentials of the

source and target ESX servers must be entered.

Before you use Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Infrastructure, you must configure

your VMware ESX servers to enable the client port for SSH. You will need to do this on

both the source and target servers.

Follow these steps to allow remote root login for SSH.