What VMware vSphere permissions are required for Active Backup for Business to back up and restore virtual machines?

What VMware vSphere permissions are required for Active Backup for Business to back up and restore virtual machines?

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To back up and restore virtual machines on VMware vSphere using Active Backup for Business, you'll need to adjust permissions in VMware vSphere.1 

The account you use to add VMware vSphere hypervisor to Active Backup for Business requires the following permissions:

VMware vSphere Settings Permissions
Cryptographic Operations
  • Decrypt
  • Direct access
Datastore
  • Allocate space
  • Browse datastore
  • Low-level file operations
  • Remove files
Datastore Cluster
  • Configure datastore clusters
Extension
  • Register extensions
  • Unregister extensions
Folder
  • Create folders
  • Delete folders
Global
  • Enable methods
  • Disable methods
  • Licenses
  • Log events
  • Manage custom attributes
  • Set custom attributes
  • Settings
Host > Configuration
  • Network configurations
  • Storage partition configurations
Network
  • Assign networks
  • Configure
Resource
  • Assign virtual machines to resource pools
  • Create resource pools
  • Migrate powered-off virtual machines
  • Migrate powered-on virtual machines
  • Remove resource pools
Profile-Driven Storage (vSphere 7.x and lower)
  • Update profile-driven storage
  • View profile-driven storage
Virtual Machine > Change Configuration
  • Acquire disk leases
  • Add existing disks
  • Add new disks
  • Add or remove devices
  • Advanced configurations
  • Change settings
  • Change resources
  • Extend virtual disks
  • Modify device settings
  • Remove disks
  • Rename
  • Set annotations
  • Toggle disk change tracking
Virtual Machine > Guest Operations
  • Guest operation modifications
  • Guest operation program executions
  • Guest operation queries
Virtual Machine > Interaction
  • Console interactions
  • Connect devices
  • Guest operating system management by VIX API
  • Power off
  • Power on
  • Suspend
Virtual Machine > Edit Inventory
  • Register
  • Remove
  • Unregister
Virtual Machine > Provisioning
  • Allow disk access
  • Allow read-only disk access
  • Allow virtual machine downloads
  • Allow virtual machine file uploads
Virtual Machine > Snapshot Management
  • Create snapshots
  • Remove snapshots
  • Revert to snapshots
vSphere Tagging
  • Assign or unassign vSphere tags
dvPort Group
  • Create
  • Delete
vApp
  • Add virtual machines
  • Assign resource pools
  • Unregister

Notes:

  1. ESXi is usually not used for permission management. Instead, you can use an administrator account to perform backups.