Account Permissions

To perform backup and restore operations, accounts that the plug-in uses to perform data protection and disaster recovery operations must be granted the following permissions.

Veeam Backup & Replication User Account Permissions

A user account that you plan to use when installing and working with Veeam Backup & Replication must have permissions described in section Installing and Using Veeam Backup & Replication.

HPE Morpheus VM Essentials User Permissions

Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials requires a user account in the HPE Morpheus VM Essentials infrastructure where data protection and disaster recovery tasks will be performed. To allow Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials to access the HPE Morpheus VM Essentials manager and resources that you want to protect, the account used by Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials must have a specific set of permissions:

  • Admin > Appliance Settings
  • Admin > Environment Settings
  • Admin > Provisioning Settings
  • Admin > Service Plans
  • API > Execution Request
  • Backups > Backups
  • Infrastructure > Clouds
  • Infrastructure > Clusters
  • Infrastructure > Compute
  • Infrastructure > Groups
  • Infrastructure > Keypairs
  • Infrastructure > Manage Placement
  • Infrastructure > Networks
  • Infrastructure > Storage
  • Library > Operating Systems
  • Library > Virtual Images
  • Lifecycle > Power Control
  • Lifecycle > Reconfigure
  • Operations > Wiki
  • Provisioning > Instances: Add
  • Provisioning > Instances: Delete
  • Provisioning > Instances: Edit
  • Provisioning > Instances: List
  • Snapshots > Snapshots

For more information on access permissions, see HPE Morpheus VM Essentials documentation.

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