Connection to Veeam Backup & Replication Servers

The account used for connecting Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager servers must:

• Be a member of the Performance Monitor Users and Event Log Readers security groups.
• Have permissions to remotely access WMI.

This includes remote access, activation and launching the DCOM application of WMI, and remote access to the root WMI namespace and sub-namespaces. For details on granting these permissions, see Configuring Permissions to Remotely Access WMI.

These permissions must be granted to the account on machines that run:

• Veeam Backup & Replication
• Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
• Backup proxy, backup repository (Windows-based), WAN Accelerator, tape server and cloud gateway components (required to collect performance data from these servers)