Question
What permissions does a user need within VMware to perform Agentless Backups?
Answer
The following list of permissions are required for DPX Agentless Backup and Restore
Datacenter
• Create datacenter
• Reconfigure datacenter
Datastore
• Allocate space
• Browse datastore
• Configure datastore
• Low level file operations
• Remove file
• Update virtual machine files
Datastore Cluster
• Configure a datastore cluster
Distributed switch
• Create
• Delete
• Host operation
• Modify
• Move
• Network I/O Control operation
• Policy operation
• Port configuration option
• Port setting operation
• VSPAN operation
ESX Agent Manager
• Config
• Modify
• View
Extension
• Register extension
Folder
• Create folder
• Delete folder
• Move folder
• Rename folder
Global
• Cancel task
• Diagnostics (used for troubleshooting, not required for operations)
• Disable methods
• Enable methods
• Licenses
• Log event
• Manage custom attributes
• Set custom attribute
• Settings
Host
Configuration
• Advanced settings
• Storage partition configuration
Network
• Assign network
• Configure
• Move network
• Remove
Resource
• Apply recommendation
• Assign a vApp to resource pool
• Assign virtual machine to resource pool
• Create resource pool
• Migrate powered off VM
• Migrate powered on VM
• Modify resource pool
• Move resource pool
• Query vMotion
• Remove resource pool
• Rename resource pool
Sessions
• View and stop sessions
Storage views
• Configure service
• View
Tasks
• Create task
• Update task
Virtual Machine
Configuration
• Add existing disk
• Add new disk
• Add or remove device
• Advanced
• Change CPU count
• Change resource
• Configure managedBy
• Disk change tracking
• Disk lease
• Display connection settings
• Extend virtual disk
• Host USB device
• Memory
• Modify device settings
• Query Fault Tolerance compatibility
• Query unowned files
• Raw device
• Reload from path
• Remove disk (detach and remove virtual disk)
• Rename
• Reset guest information
• Set annotation
• Settings
• Swapfile placement
• Unlock virtual machine
• Upgrade virtual machine compatibility
Guest Operations
• Guest Operation Modifications
• Guest Operation Program Execution
• Guest Operation Queries
Interaction
• Answer question
• Backup operation on virtual machine
• Configure CD media
• Configure floppy media
• Console interaction
• Create screenshot
• Defragment all disks
• Device connection
• Disable Fault Tolerance
• Enable Fault Tolerance
• Guest operating system management by VIX API
• Inject USB HID scan codes
• Perform wipe or shrink operations
• Power Off
• Power On
• Record session on VM
• Replay session on VM
• Reset
• Suspend
• Test failover
• Test restart Secondary VM
• Turn Off Fault Tolerance
• Turn On Fault Tolerance
• VMware Tools install
Inventory
• Create from existing
• Create new
• Move
• Register
• Remove
• Unregister
Provisioning
• Allow disk access
• Allow read-only disk access
• Allow virtual machine download
• Allow virtual machine files upload
• Clone template
• Clone virtual machine
• Create template from virtual machine
• Customize
• Deploy template
• Mark as template
• Mark as virtual machine
• Modify customization specification
• Promote disks
• Read customization specifications
Replication
• Configure replication
• Manage replication
• Monitor replication
Service configuration
• Allow notifications
• Allow polling of global event notifications
• Manage service configurations
• Modify service configurations
• Query service configurations
• Read service configurations
Snapshot management
• Create snapshot
• Remove snapshot
• Rename snapshot
• Revert to snapshot
vApp
• Add VM (to vApp)
• Assign resource pool to vApp
• Assign vApp (to another vApp)
• Clone
• Create
• Delete
• Export
• Import
• Move
• Power Off
• Power On
• Rename
• Suspend
• Unregister
• View OVF Environment
• vApp application configuration
• vApp instance configuration
• vApp managedBy configuration
• vApp resource configuration
All Privileges
• Propagate to children