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Minimum privileges for a netvault backup role on the vCenter server to be assigned to user that will be used as netvault user when setting up VMware plugin


Procedure:

When adding a vCenter server to Netvault VMware plugin we need to give a username and password. This user not only has to be able login to the vCenter server it has to be assigned a role. If you do not want to give this user the Administrator role on vCenter server there is a minimum set of privileges required to give the user or there will be problems during backup and more commonly restore:
These are listed in the resolution section.

complete list of roles :

Resource -> Assign vApp to resource pool

Resource -> Assign virtual machine to resource pool

Tasks -> Create task

Tasks -> Update task

vApp - > Add virtual machine

Virtual Machine -> Inventory -> Create new

Virtual Machine -> Inventory -> Remove (to delete VM in case of failure)

VirtualMachine -> Inventory -> Register (for VM creation during VCB restore)

VirtualMachine -> Inventory -> Unregister

Virtual Machine -> Provisioning -> Allow disk access (to write data to disk)

Virtual Machine -> Provisioning -> Allow read-only disk access (to query for

changed disk areas)

Virtual Machine -> Provisioning -> Allow virtual machine download (to read

data from disk)

Virtual Machine -> State -> Create snapshot

Virtual Machine -> State -> Remove snapshot

Virtual Machine -> State -> Revert to snapshot

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Disk change tracking (to enable CBT)

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Disk lease (san mode access)

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Add existing disk

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Add new disk (to create flat vmdks - not

RDM)

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Add or remove device (to add virtual

devices to VM)

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Change CPU count

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Change resource

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Disk change tracking

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Disk lease

VirtualMachine -> Configuration -> RawDevice (if including a raw device

mapping or SCSI passthrough device when creating VM)

VirtualMachine -> Configuration -> HostUSBDevice (if adding a VirtualUSB

device backed by a host USB device when creating VM)

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Advanced (if setting values in

ConfigSpec.extraConfig when creating VM)

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Modify device settings

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Reload from path

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Remove Disk

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Rename

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Reset Guest Information

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Memory

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Settings 

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Unlock Virtual Machine

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Swapfile placement (to set swapfile

policy, required when creating VM)

Virtual Machine -> Configuration -> Upgrade virtual hardware

Virtual Machine -> Interaction -> Power off

Virtual Machine -> Interaction -> Power on

Datastore -> Allocate space (to create VM, required on all datastores where the

virtual machine and its virtual disks will be created)

Datastore -> Browse datastore (to upload of nvram, log files, vmx file, etc)

Datastore -> Configure datastores

Datastore -> Low level file operations (to upload of nvram, log files, vmx

file, etc and to create and delete directories on the datastore during VCB

restore)

Datastore -> Remove File

Datastore -> Update virtual machine files

Extension -> Register

Global -> Cancel Task

Global -> Disable Methods

Global -> Enable Methods

Global -> Licenses

Global -> Log Event

Global -> Manage Custom Attributes

Global -> Set Custom Attributes

Global -> Settings

Host -> Advanced Settings

Host -> Storage Partition Configuration

Network -> Assign network (required on the network which is assigned to the new

virtual machine that is being created)

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