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VMware Role permissions for Veeam Replication

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Hi,

I would like to ask if anybody can specify what the VMware role permissions of a VMware user role in a remote VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere setup should be set to, when performing a Veeam Replication job from om VMware environment to another?

It should only be the minimum requirements, that I would like to know since we only want to give the least permissions to this user.
That is, we only want this user to be able to perform replication to the remote vCenter setup and nothing else.

Thanks.

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Re: VMware Role permissions for Veeam Replication

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Hi,

Does anybody have a reply for this?

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Here you go:

vStorage API - Virtual Appliance mode

Global:
Log event

Datastore:
Low-level file operations
Browse datastore
Allocate space
Remove file

Virtual Machine - State:
Create snapshot
Remove snapshot

Virtual Machine – Configuration:
Disk change tracking
Change resource
Add existing disk
Remove disk

Virtual Machine – Provisioning:
Allow read-only disk access

Virtual Machine - Inventory:
Register

Resource:
Assign virtual machine to resource pool
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vStorage API - Network mode

Global:
Log event

Datastore:
Low-level file operations
Browse datastore
Allocate space
Remove file

Virtual Machine - State:
Create snapshot
Remove snapshot

Virtual Machine – Configuration:
Disk change tracking

Virtual Machine – Provisioning:
Allow read-only disk access

Virtual Machine - Inventory:
Register

Resource:
Assign virtual machine to resource pool
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vStorage API - SAN mode

Global:
Log event

Datastore:
Low-level file operations
Browse datastore
Allocate space
Remove file

Virtual Machine - State:
Create snapshot
Remove snapshot

Virtual Machine – Configuration:
Disk change tracking
Disk lease

Virtual Machine – Provisioning:
Allow read-only disk access
Allow virtual machine download

Virtual Machine - Inventory:
Register

Resource:
Assign virtual machine to resource pool
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Re: VMware Role permissions for Veeam Replication

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Hi Vitality S.

Thanks for your reply.

Can you confirm that these permission settings are for the remote replica side vCenter permissions?
(not the local vCenter setup you are backing up)

Thanks.

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Re: VMware Role permissions for Veeam Replication

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Those permissions are cumulative, meaning that they apply for both source and target side.

Though If you need to specify permissions for the target side only, you should cross out Virtual Machine - State and Virtual Machine – Configuration, should work.
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What are rights needed to vCenter DR Site ?
We will use different account on local and DR site on Vcenter.
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It depends on what you're planning to do with a DR vCenter Server (failback, failover etc.). Please see the most recent permissions list for further info.
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To do an offsite replication, I think I just need "Replica Failover" rights. Right ?
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In this case I believe failover and failback should be all you need.
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OK, thanks.
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Re: VMware Role permissions for Veeam Replication

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I need to restrict veeam user rights acessing a vSphere 5.5U1 installation.
I user Veeam 7.0.871. I'm pretty sure the list is not updated, since it lacks at least tagging privileges to modify the VM's tags with backup's status.
Can you please point me to the article where this privileges are updated (I didn't find it by myself)?
Or can you update this list please?
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Hi Flavio,

The most recent version of granular permissions can be found on our website > http://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_7_0_p ... ons_pg.pdf

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Re: VMware Role permissions for Veeam Replication

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Hello
Please answer, do we need to grant Datastore.Browse permissions on source VMware vCenter if we want to replicate VM from it to target side?
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Re: VMware Role permissions for Veeam Replication

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Yes.
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