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NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

VMware vSphere privileges for agentless SFR privileges

This section outlines the privileges that are required for agentless Single File Restore (SFR) using different transport modes in VMware vSphere: NBD, hotadd, and SAN. The privileges that are indicated are specifically for restoring to the original location of the virtual machine (VM). These privileges need to be set at the vCenter server level.

Agentless SFR transport modes: NBD, hotadd, SAN

The following privileges are necessary across all transport modes to perform agentless SFR operations within VMware vSphere.

Global

  • Enable methods

  • Disable methods

Resource

  • Assign virtual machine to resource pool

Virtual machine

  • Change configuration

    • Add existing disk

    • Add new disk

    • Add or remove device

    • Remove disk

    • Toggle disk change tracking

  • Edit inventory

    • Create new

    • Remove

  • Guest operations

    • Guest operation modifications

    • Guest operation program execution

    • Guest operation queries

  • Provisioning

    • Allow disk access

    • Allow read-only access

    • Allow virtual machine download

  • Snapshot management

    • Create snapshot

    • Remove snapshot

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