Managing Tenant Accounts

Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager offers the following types of vSphere Self-Service Backup Portal tenant accounts: User, Group, External User and External Group.

Type

Description

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Name Format

User

AD user

By specifying a user name and password

DOMAIN\Username

Domain is optional

Group

AD group

By specifying a user name and password

DOMAIN\Groupname

Domain is optional

External User

IdP user

By using single sign-on*

Username@Suffix

External Group

IdP group

By using single sign-on*

Free-form string

* For more information on the single sign-on capability, see SAML Authentication Support.

Note

You cannot create a vSphere Self-Service Backup Portal tenant account for a local user account.

Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager administrators can perform the following tasks with the tenant accounts: