How To Connect Veeam Backup And Replication To VMware Vsphere

Josh! Can this guy do any more Veeam snips? You'd think he'd run out of ideas at some point. In another snip, he showed us how to connect Veeam with Hyper-V but now VMware too? That Veeam Backup and Replication software sure is promiscuous.

[joe]

Help. I cannot add my vmware ESXi 6.7 and 5.0 server to Veeam Backup, it tells me the following error: "A connection cannot be established since the destination computer expressly denied that connection" I use port 443 to make the connection. I have read on the Veeam backup page and it says that you probably have to open port 443 on ESXi servers.