Ports
Veeam Backup for RHV automatically creates firewall rules for the ports required to allow communication between the RHV backup appliance, workers and the backup server.
RHV Backup Appliance
The following table describes network ports that must be open to ensure proper communication of the RHV backup appliance with other backup infrastructure components.
From | To | Protocol | Port | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
RHV backup appliance | Backup server | TCP | 10006 | Used to communicate with the Veeam Backup & Replication server. |
RHV manager | TCP/HTTPS | 443 | Used to communicate with the REST API service running on the RHV manager. | |
RHV manager | TCP | 54323 | Used to communicate with RHV Manager (hosted engine). | |
RHV host | TCP/HTTPS | 443 | Used to communicate with the REST API service running on an RHV host. | |
RHV host | TCP | 54322 | Used to communicate with RHV hosts. | |
Workers | TCP | 19000 | Used to communicate with workers. | |
Veeam backup repository or gateway server | TCP | 2500-3300 | Default range of ports used as transmission channels for jobs and restore sessions. For each 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) | TCP/HTTP(S) | 80 (443) | Used to get OS security updates. | |
.NET Core Update repository | TCP/HTTPS | 443 | Used to get .NET Core updates. | |
Veeam Updater repository (repository.veeam.com, cloudfront.net) | TCP/HTTPS | 443 | Used to download RHV backup appliance update packages. | |
Nginx repository (nginx.org/packages/, nginx.org/packages/keys/) | TCP/HTTPS | 443 | Used to download Nginx packages required for RHV backup appliance web console updates. |
Workers
The following table describes network ports that must be open to ensure proper communication of workers with other backup infrastructure components.
From | To | Protocol | Port | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Worker | Backup server | TCP | 10006 | Used to communicate with the Veeam Backup & Replication server. |
RHV manager | TCP/HTTPS | 443 | Used to communicate with the REST API service running on the RHV manager. | |
RHV manager | TCP | 54323 | Used to communicate with RHV Manager (hosted engine). | |
RHV host | TCP/HTTPS | 443 | Used to communicate with the REST API service running on an RHV host. | |
RHV host | TCP | 54322 | Used to communicate with RHV hosts. | |
RHV backup appliance | TCP | 19001 | Used to communicate with the RHV backup appliance. | |
Veeam backup repository or gateway server | TCP | 2500-3300 | Default range of ports used as transmission channels for jobs and restore sessions. For each 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) | TCP/HTTP(S) | 80 (443) | Used to get OS security updates. | |
.NET Core Update repository | TCP/HTTPS | 443 | Used to get .NET Core updates. | |
Veeam Updater repository (repository.veeam.com, cloudfront.net) | TCP/HTTPS | 443 | Used to download RHV backup appliance update packages. | |
Nginx repository (nginx.org/packages/, nginx.org/packages/keys/) | TCP/HTTPS | 443 | Used to download Nginx packages required for RHV backup appliance web console updates. |
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.
From | To | Protocol | Port | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
RHV backup appliance, Veeam Backup & Replication console | Backup server | TCP/HTTPS | 8544 | Used to communicate with the Platform Service REST API.
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Backup server | FLR helper appliance | TCP | 22 | Used to connect to the helper appliance during file-level restore. |
Backup server | TCP/HTTPS | 6172 | Used by the RHV Platform Service to enable communication with the Veeam Backup & Replication database. | |
RHV manager | TCP/HTTPS | 443 | Used to communicate with the REST API service running on the RHV manager. | |
RHV manager | TCP | 54323 | Used to communicate with the RHV manager (hosted engine). | |
RHV backup appliance | TCP/HTTPS | 443 | Used by the RHV Platform Service to connect to the RHV backup appliance. |
Note |
For the list of ports used by the backup server to communicate with backup repositories, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Used Ports. |