As well as an updated VMware reference card there is also a reference card showing all the ports used by various VMware services, which has been called the firewall card.
I am especially pleased to see the firewall diagram. The firewalls are controlled by a separate team at my company and they are not always the most flexible of guys. Haha. Every change to the firewall has to be raised on a form, signed off by Directors and/or VPs, and faxed through to the corporate HQ, where it is saved in a DB. All that before they do anything. Occasionally they'll actually help out testing what is actually needed, but generally they are a PITA.
Most of the ports are indeed documented within Manuals. However, certainly with the Vi3 documentation, I was disappointed by the quality of that documentation. Ports would be listed at required with the inference it was only one way and solely one of TCP or UDP. Unfortunately, some experimentation demonstrated that that might not actually be the case. A port needed to be open in both directions, TCP in one direction and UDP in the reverse!
Anyway having all that information so clearly documented here will be a great help going forward.
That's that!
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