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Add-VBRCloudProviderCredentials

Short Description

Adds cloud provider credentials records to Veeam Backup & Replication.

Applies to

Platform: VMware, Hyper-V

Product Edition: Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus

Syntax

Add-VBRCloudProviderCredentials -Name <string> -Password <string> [-Description <string>] [<CommonParameters>]

Detailed Description

This cmdlet adds cloud provider credentials records to Veeam Backup & Replication

Add-VBRCloudProviderCredentials Note:

This cmdlet requires a PSCredential object. Use Get-Credential to create the PSCredentials object.
For more information on Get-Credential, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/reference/5.1/microsoft.powershell.security/get-credential.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Required	Position	Accept Pipeline Input	Accept Wildcard Characters
Name	Specifies the login for cloud provider credentials records.	True	Named	False
Password	Specifies the password for cloud provider credentials records.	False	Named	False
Description	Specifies the description for cloud provider credentials records.	False	Named	False

This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information on common parameters, see the About CommonParameters section of Microsoft Docs.

Return Type

Example 1

This command adds cloud provider credentials records to the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure.

Add-VBRCloudProviderCredentials -Name "Cloud Login" -Password "Cloud password"

Example 2

This example shows how to add cloud provider credentials records with the secure string option to the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure.

Run Read-Host with the Prompt and AsSecureString parameters. Save the result to the $securepassword variable.
Run Add-VBRCloudProviderCredentials with the $securepassword variable.

$securepassword = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter password" -AsSecureString

Add-VBRCloudProviderCredentials -Name "Cloud Login" -Password $securepassword