Open Firewall Ports

The # reference numbers refer to the architecture diagrams on the following pages:

DRaaS Architecture Diagram Showing Ports

ICDR Architecture Diagram Showing Ports

The following ports must be opened in the firewalls in both the organization and Managed Service Provider sites.

Port Description
22 During Virtual Replication Appliance (VRA) installation on ESXi 5.1 and higher for communication between the Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM) and the ESXi hosts IPs and for ongoing communication between the ZVM in the cloud site – but not the customer site – and a Zerto Cloud Connector.
443 During VRA installation on ESX/ESXi hosts for communication between the ZVM and the ESX/ESXi hosts IPs and for ongoing communication between the ZVM and vCenter Server and vCloud Director.
4005 Log collection between the Zerto Virtual Manager and Virtual Replication Appliances on the same site , using TLS over TCP communication.
4006 TLS over TCP communication between the Zerto Virtual Manager and Virtual Replication Appliances on the same site.
4007 Unencrypted TCP control communication between protecting and recovering VRAs and between a Zerto Cloud Connector and VRAs.
4008 Unencrypted TCP communication between VRAs to pass data from protected virtual machines to a VRA on a recovery site and between a Zerto Cloud Connector and VRAs.
4009 TLS over TCP communication between the Zerto Virtual Manager and site Virtual Replication Appliances to handle checkpoints.
7073

Internal port, used only on the ZVM VM. Used for communication with the service in charge of collecting data for the Zerto Resource Planner.

Note: Unless you select the checkbox ‘Enable Support notification and product improvement feedback’, data is not transmitted to Zerto Analytics.

8100 Communication between the Zerto Virtual Manager and the System Center Virtual Machine Manager in a customer site running Zerto Virtual Replication with Hyper-V.
9071* HTTPS communication between paired ZVMs.
8883 MQTT communication between the ZVM and vCloud Director.
9080
HTTP communication between the ZVM and Zerto internal APIs, a Zerto Cloud Manager (ZCM), which should only be available to a customer using DRaaS and not ICDR.
HTTP communication between ZVM and Zerto Cloud Manager (ZCM). When the customer's ZCM is v5.5 and above, and their ZVM is v5.0, communication is via this port.
9007 Encrypted TCP control communication between protecting and recovering VRAs and between a Zerto Cloud Connector and VRAs.
9008 Encrypted TCP communication between VRAs to pass data from protected virtual machines to a VRA on a recovery site and between a Zerto Cloud Connector and VRAs.
9071* HTTPS communication between paired ZVMs.
9080
HTTP communication between the ZVM and Zerto internal APIs, a Zerto Cloud Manager (ZCM), which should only be available to a customer using DRaaS and not ICDR.
HTTP communication between the ZVM and Zerto Cloud Manager (ZCM). When the customer's ZCM is v5.5 and above, and their ZVM is v5.0, communication is via this port.
9081

TCP communication between Zerto Virtual Managers and between a customer Zerto Virtual Manager and a Zerto Cloud Connector, maintained for backward compatibility purposes.

This port must not be changed when providing DRaaS.

9072 to 9079, 9082 and up

Two ports for each VRA (one for port 4007 and one for port 4008) accessed via the Zerto Cloud Connector installed by the Managed Service Provider.

There is directionality to these ports.
From client site to Zerto Cloud Connector, the ports are 9082 and up.
From cloud site toZerto Cloud Connector, the ports are 9072 and up.

For example:

If Customer A network has 3 VRAs and customer B network has 2 VRAs and the Managed Service Provider management network has 4 VRAs, then the following ports must be open in the firewall for each cloud:

The Managed Service Provider's VRAs need to use 12 ports to reach customer A's VRAs, while customer A's VRAs need 16 ports to reach the cloud's VRAs.

The Managed Service Provider's VRAs need to use 8 ports to reach customer B's VRAs, while customer B's VRAs need 16 ports to reach the cloud's VRAs.

9180 Communication between the VBA and VRA.
9669 HTTPS communication between:
Machines running Zerto User Interface and Zerto Virtual Manager
Zerto Virtual Manager and Zerto REST APIs, cmdlets.
ZVM and Zerto Cloud Manager (ZCM). When the customer's ZCM and ZVM are both v5.5 and above, communication is via this port.
9779 HTTPS communication between the Zerto Self-Service Portal for in-cloud (ICDR) customers and a ZVM.
9989 HTTPS communication between the browser and the Zerto Cloud Manager.