Google Cloud Service Accounts

You can create a record for credentials that you plan to use to connect to Google Compute Engine within Google Cloud. This Google Cloud service account is used by Veeam Backup & Replication to perform direct restore to Google Compute Engine and backup and restore operations available with Google Cloud Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication. For more information on the latter, see the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud User Guide.

To create a credentials record for a Google Cloud service account:

  1. From the main menu, select Credentials and Passwords > Cloud Credentials.
  2. Click Add > Google Cloud Platform service account.
  3. At the Type step of the wizard, select if you want to create a new service account automatically or use an existing service account.

Note

If you select Create a new service account, the created service account will be granted the Owner IAM role with a wide scope of permissions and capabilities. If you want to limit the list of permissions granted to the service account, create a user-managed service account, as described in the Google Cloud documentation, with the limited set of permissions:

  • For the information on permissions required to restore to Google Compute Engine, see Google Compute Engine IAM User Permissions.
  • For the information on permissions required to deploy Google Cloud Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication, see the Permissions section in the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud User Guide.

Google Cloud Service Accounts 

  1. At the Account step of the wizard, specify credentials required for accessing the service account:
  • If you have selected Create a new service account, do the following:
  1. Log into your Google Cloud account. Read and accept the Google Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.
  2. Allow Veeam Backup & Replication to access your Google account. After that, Veeam Backup & Replication can manage your Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, and see, edit, configure and delete your Google Cloud data.
  3. Return to the wizard and select the project with which you want the created service account to work.

Google Cloud Service Accounts 

  • If you have selected Use the existing service account, do the following:
  1. Download the service account key in the JSON format, created as described in Google Cloud documentation.

Important

Depending on the scenarios that the service account will be used for, make sure that the service account meets all requirements and limitations.

For restoring virtual workloads from backups to Google Cloud, consider the requirements and limitations listed in section Restore to Google Compute Engine.

  1. At the Account step of the wizard, select the downloaded service account key.

Google Cloud Service Accounts 

  1. At the Summary step of the wizard, review details of the configured account and click Finish to close the wizard.

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