Used Ports
When you add new backup infrastructure components, Veeam Backup & Replication automatically creates firewall rules for the required ports on this servers. These rules allow communication between the components. In this topic, you can find the full list of required ports.
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For Debian, SLES, RHEL/CentOS distributions, you must create firewall or security rules manually. For details, see this Veeam KB article. |
AHV Backup Proxy Server
The following table describes network ports that must be opened to ensure proper communication of the AHV Backup Proxy with backup infrastructure components.
From | To | Port | Protocol | Notes |
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Browser | AHV Backup Proxy server | 443 or 8100 | HTTPS | Port used by web console of AHV Backup Proxy. |
AHV Backup Proxy | Nutanix REST API | 9440 | HTTPS | Port used to communicate with Nutanix REST API. |
Veeam Backup & Replication server | 10006 | TCP | Port used to connect to Veeam Backup & Replication. | |
Nutanix AHV server | 3205, 3260 | TCP/iSCSI | Ports used for connections to disks on Nutanix AHV VMs. | |
Veeam backup repository (or gateway server) | 2500-3300* | TCP | Default range of ports used as transmission channels for jobs and restore sessions. For every TCP connection that a job uses, one port from this range is assigned. | |
Ubuntu Security and OS Update repository (security.ubuntu.com, archive.ubuntu.com) | 80 | HTTP | Required to get OS security updates. | |
OS Update repository (packages.microsoft.com) | 443 | HTTPS | Required to get OS updates. | |
Veeam Updater repository (repository.veeam.com, cloudfront.net) | 443 | TCP | Required to download AHV Backup Proxy packages and information on available product updates. | |
Nginx repository (nginx.org/packages/, nginx.org/keys/) | 443 | TCP | Required to download nginx packages. |
* This range of ports applies to newly added backup infrastructure components. If you upgrade to Veeam Backup & Replication 10.0 from earlier versions of the product, the range of ports from 2500 to 5000 applies to the already added components.
Veeam Backup & Replication Server
The following table describes network ports that must be opened to ensure proper communication of Veeam Backup & Replication with backup infrastructure components.
From | To | Port | Protocol | Notes |
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AHV Backup Proxy, Veeam Backup & Replication console and Veeam ONE server | Veeam Backup & Replication server | 8543 | HTTPS | Port used by AHV Platform Service (the main service of Nutanix AHV Plug-in). |
Veeam Backup & Replication server | FLR helper appliance | 22 | TCP | Port used to connect to the file-level restore helper appliance. |
Veeam Backup & Replication server | 6172 | HTTPS | Port used by AHV Platform Service to connect to a component that enables communication with the Veeam Backup & Replication database. | |
Nutanix AHV cluster | 9440 | HTTPS | Port used by AHV Platform Service to connect to AHV cluster. | |
AHV Backup Proxy | 443 or 8100 | HTTPS | Port used by AHV Platform Service to connect to AHV Backup Proxy. |
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