Ports

Veeam Backup & Replication automatically creates firewall rules for the ports required to allow communication between the Universal Hypervisor Manager, workers and the backup server.

Workers

The following table describes network ports that must be open to ensure proper communication of workers with other backup infrastructure components.

Workers

From

To

Protocol

Port

Notes

Worker

Universal Hypervisor Manager

TCP/HTTPS

443

Used to communicate with the REST API service running on the Universal Hypervisor Manager.

Veeam backup repository or gateway server

TCP

6162
(2500 to 3300)

Used as a transmission channel for jobs and restore sessions. The port range 2500-3300 is used for failover if port 6162 is unavailable.

Backup server

TCP

6162
(2500 to 3300)

Used for ransomware index transfer. The port range 2500-3300 is used for failover if port 6162 is unavailable.

Backup server

TCP

10006

Used to communicate with the backup server.

Veeam Update Repository
(repository.veeam.com)

Amazon CloudFront
(cloudfront.net, amazonaws.com)

TCP/HTTPS

443

Used to download worker deployment packages.

Note: Veeam Update Repository uses the Amazon CloudFront service to distribute traffic when downloading product updates.

Veeam Update Repository (local mirror)

(<yourlocalmirror.domain>)

TCP

443 or 80

Used to download worker update packages from your local mirror repository if enabled as described in section Setting Up Global Update Configuration.

NTP server

UDP

123

Used for time synchronization with NTP servers.

Backup Server

The following table describes network ports that must be open to ensure proper communication of the backup server with other backup infrastructure components.

Backup Server

From

To

Protocol

Port

Notes

Backup server

Worker

TCP

19000

Used to communicate with workers.

Worker

TCP/HTTPS

443

Used by the Platform Service to enable communication with the Veeam Updater service on the worker.

Universal Hypervisor Manager

TCP/HTTPS

443

Used to communicate with the REST API service running on the Universal Hypervisor Manager.

Note: The actual port depends on the specific hypervisor.

Note

For the list of ports used by the backup server to communicate with backup repositories, see Ports.

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