Restoring VM does not restore vSphere permissions for Virtual Machine Object

[DaStivi]

Dear Veeam Community,

i've discoverd quite some interesting behavior... i've restored an VM with instant VM-Recovery, nothing new to this, but my colleague than noticed that he had "special Administrator vSphere Permission" on this single VM(-Object).

so it looks like restoring an VM does not recover specific VM permissions inside vCenter (and ESX?!)
i've searched the forums but didn't found something regarding this topic.

i would wonder if nobody had noticed this and also if nobody is using specific permissions on virtual machine objects in vmware?

best regards
Stephan

[PetrM]

Hi Stephan!

I would say that this is the expected behavior.

Permission specifies for one group or user which privileges that group or user has on the object however permission is not a property of object configuration which is stored in backup.
Information about permissions on VM at vSphere level is not collected during backup but restore process creates new object, registers new VM in vSphere inventory.

I'd suggest to try setting necessary permissions to a parent inventory object (folder, resource pool etc.) and these permissions would be inherited by child objects.
Then, you can check this assumption by doing a simple test: to specify parent object with assigned permissions at the level of target settings in restore wizard.

Thanks!