Opening a port on ESXi 5.1

[luke_nexgen]

Been looking through the pubs but nothing has worked so far.

I've created VM running a speed test server we'd like to be accessible by some clients.  I believe ESXi is blocking the port necessary for clients to access the server.  The port talks on port 8080, which is not listed in Configuration->Security Profile->Firewall Properties so I need to add this via command line.  Problem is I don't know how and haven't found much to help me.

Any tips??

[MauroBonder]

Try check out VMware KB: Creating custom firewall rules in VMware ESXi 5.0

or you can disable firewall during test.

Stopping the firewall with esxcli network firewall set --enabled false

[Cyberfed27]

I am unaware of ESXi 5.1 blocking 8080 by default.

We have several internal websites ect..running on port 8080 and other obscure ports and have never had to tweak the ESXi firewall. I suspect your problem is something else.

[MauroBonder]

These sites are built on VMware ESXi?
You can disable and enable the firewall via command line without stopping the environment if you want to do a test disabling the firewall host.