Product Version: 10.5
Last Modified: 25 November 2021
Question
I do not want to grant full administrative vSphere permissions to NAKIVO Backup & Replication.
What are the permissions required by NAKIVO Backup & Replication?
Answer
The following vSphere permissions are required:
- Cryptographic Operations
- Direct access
- Add disk
- Datastore
- Allocate space
- Browse datastore
- Low-level file operations
- Remove file
- dvPort group
- Create
- Delete
- Folder
- Create folder
- Delete folder
- Global
- Disable methods
- Enable methods
- Licenses
- Log event
- Manage custom attributes
- Set custom attribute
- Settings
- Host > Configuration
- Network configuration
- Storage partition configuration
- Host > Local operations
- Create virtual machine
- Delete virtual machine
- Reconfigure virtual machine
- Network
- Assign network
- Configure
- Resource
- Assign virtual machine to resource pool
- Create resource pool
- Migrate powered off virtual machine
- Migrate powered-on virtual machine
- Remove resource pool
- vApp
- Add virtual machine
- Assign resource pool
- Unregister
- Virtual machine > Configuration
- Add existing disk
- Add new disk
- Add or remove device
- Advanced
- Change CPU count
- Change resource
- Disk change tracking
- Disk lease
- Extend virtual disk
- Host USB device
- Memory
- Modify device settings
- Raw device
- Remove disk
- Rename
- Settings
- Swapfile placement
- Display connection settings
- Virtual machine > Interaction
- Configure CD media
- Configure floppy media
- Console interaction
- Create screenshot
- Device connection
- Guest operating system management by VIX API
- Perform wipe or shrink operations
- Power Off
- Power On
- Virtual machine > Inventory
- Create from existing
- Create new
- Register
- Remove
- Unregister
- Virtual machine > Provisioning
- Allow disk access
- Allow read-only disk access
- Allow virtual machine download
- Allow virtual machine files upload
- Virtual machine > Snapshot management
- Create snapshot
- Remove snapshot
Revert to snapshot