7. Backup and restore of vSphere VMs: required permissions
The account used to perform backup operations via Uranium must have the following permissions:
| Privilege level | Permission required | |
| Datastore | FileManagment | |
| Browse | ||
| Global | EnableMethods | |
| System | Anonymous | |
| Read | ||
| View | ||
| Virtual Machine | Configuration | AddExistingDisk |
| RemoveDisk | ||
| Provisioning | DiskRandomAccess | |
| DiskRandomRead | ||
| GetVmFiles | ||
| State | CreateSnapshot | |
| RemoveSnapshot | ||
To perform restore operations are instead required the following permissions:
| Privilege level | Permission required | |
| Datastore | AllocateSpace | |
| Browse | ||
| FileManagment | ||
| Network | Assign | |
| Config | ||
| Resource | AssignVMToPool | |
| CreatePool | ||
| RenamePool | ||
| System | Anonymous | |
| Read | ||
| View | ||
| Virtual Machine | Config | AddExistingDisk |
| AddNewDisk | ||
| AdvancedConfig | ||
| ChangeTracking | ||
| DiskLease | ||
| RemoveDisk | ||
| Interact | DeviceConnection | |
| PowerOff | ||
| PowerOn | ||
| Inventory | Register | |
| Unregister | ||
| Provisioning | DiskRandomAccess | |
| DiskRandomRead | ||
| PutVmFiles | ||