VMware vCenter Permission Settings for Agentless Backup

To use the Catalogic DPX Agentless Backup for VMware, assign the required permissions in your VMware vCenter.

See also. To configure the permission settings for VMware vCenter, see the following document:

• VMware Docs: vSphere Permissions and User Management Tasks

Enable the following permissions for VMware vCenter:

1. Datacenter

   • Create datacenter

   • Reconfigure datacenter

   • Rename datacenter

2. Datastore

   • Allocate space

   • Browse datastore

   • Configure datastore

   • Low level file operations

   • Remove file

   • Rename datastore

   • Update virtual machine files

   • Update virtual machine metadata

3. Datastore Cluster

   • Configure a datastore cluster

4. Distributed switch

   • Create

   • Delete

   • Host operation

   • Modify

   • Move

   • Network I/O Control operation

   • Policy operation

   • Port configuration option

   • Port setting operation

   • VSPAN operation

5. ESX Agent Manager

   • Config

   • Modify

   • View

6. Extension

   • Register extension

7. Folder

   • Create folder

   • Delete folder

   • Move folder

   • Rename folder

8. Global

   • Cancel task

   • Diagnostics (used for troubleshooting, not required for operations)

   • Disable methods

   • Enable methods

   • Global tag

   • Licenses

   • Log event

   • Manage custom attributes

   • Set custom attribute

   • Settings

9. Host

   • Configuration

   • Advanced settings

   • Storage partition configuration

   • System resources

10. Network

    • Assign network

    • Configure

    • Move network

    • Remove

11. 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

12. Sessions

    • View and stop sessions

13. Storage views

    • Configure service

    • View

14. Tasks

    • Create task

    • Update task

15. Virtual Machine

    1. Configuration

       • Add existing disk

       • Add new disk

       • Add or remove device

       • Advanced

       • Change CPU count

       • Change resource

       • Configure managed By

       • 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

       • Toggle fork parent

       • Unlock virtual machine

       • Upgrade virtual machine compatibility

    2. Guest Operations

       • Guest operation alias modification

       • Guest operation alias query

       • Guest operation modifications

       • Guest operation program execution

       • Guest operation queries

    3. 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

       • Drag and drop

       • Enable Fault Tolerance

       • Guest operating system management by VIX API

       • Inject USB HID scan codes

       • Pause or unpause

       • Perform wipe or shrink operations

       • Power Off

       • Power On

       • Record session on VM

       • Replay session on VM

       • Reset

       • Suspend

       • Suspend Fault Tolerance

       • Test failover

       • Test restart Secondary VM

       • Turn Off Fault Tolerance

       • Turn On Fault Tolerance

       • VMware Tools install

    4. Inventory

       • Create from existing

       • Create new

       • Move

       • Register

       • Remove

       • Unregister

    5. Provisioning

       • Allow disk access

       • Allow file 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

    6. vSphere Replication

       • Configure replication

       • Manage replication

       • Monitor replication

    7. Service configuration

       • Allow notifications

       • Allow polling of global event notifications

       • Manage service configurations

       • Modify service configurations

       • Query service configurations

       • Read service configurations

    8. Snapshot management

       • Create snapshot

       • Remove snapshot

       • Rename snapshot

       • Revert to snapshot

16. 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

17. vSphere Tagging

    • Assign or Unassign vSphere Tag

18. All Privileges

    • Propagate to children