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NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

VMware vSphere privileges for virtual machine backups

This topic details the privileges that are required for virtual machine backups with various VMware vSphere transport modes. Each mode has specific privileges necessary for operation within the vSphere infrastructure. These privileges need to be set at the vCenter server level.

Transport mode: NBD

Global

  • Disable methods

  • Enable methods

Virtual machine

  • Change configuration

    • Toggle disk change tracking

  • Provisioning

    • Allow read-only disk access

    • Allow virtual machine download

  • Snapshot management

    • Create snapshot

    • Remove snapshot

Transport mode: hotadd

Additional privileges are for required for the hotadd transport mode.

Datastore

  • Browse datastore

  • Low level file operations

Virtual machine

Change configuration

  • Add existing disk

  • Remove disk

Provisioning

  • Allow read-only disk access

  • Allow virtual machine download

Transport mode: SAN

Additional privileges are for required for the SAN transport mode.

Virtual machine

Change configuration

  • Acquire disk lease

Provisioning

  • Allow read-only disk access

  • Allow virtual machine download

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