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3 Setting Up Plug-in for Virtualization Server
Provisioning

This chapter explains how a server administrator uses vCenter Server to set up Plug-in for Virtualization
Server Provisioning. For details about Plug-in for Virtualization Server Provisioning requirements, see
the Release Notes.

Preparing the installation environment

You can register Plug-in for Virtualization Server Provisioning into VMware vCenter Server by executing
the setup tool from a Windows computer.

The following operations are required for registering Plug-in for Virtualization Server Provisioning into
VMware vCenter Server:

Registering firewall exceptions
For environments in which firewalls exist in the following locations, port numbers must be registered
as firewall exceptions so that each port can communicate.

Table 1 Port numbers that must be registered as firewall exceptions

Communication destin-
ation

Communication source

Port number

Firewall location

vCenter Server

Management client

Port number of
VMware vCenter
Server

Between a management client
and vCenter Server

Management server

Management client

Port number of
HBase Storage
Mgmt Web Service

Between a management client
and a management server

Management server

vCenter Server

Port number of
HBase Storage
Mgmt Web Service

Between vCenter Server and
a management server

Management server

vCenter Server

Port number of
VMware vCenter
Server

vCenter Server

Computer on which the
setup tool is executed

Port number of
VMware vCenter
Server

Between the computer on
which the setup tool is ex-
ecuted and vCenter Server

Installing the prerequisite software for the setup tool
The Microsoft .NET Framework must be installed on the computer on which the setup tool for Plug-
in for Virtualization Server Provisioning is executed.

Setting up name resolution

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