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.

Hypervisor User Permissions

Veeam Plug-in for Universal Hypervisor API requires a user account in the hypervisor infrastructure where data protection and disaster recovery tasks will be performed.

To allow Veeam Plug-in for Universal Hypervisor API to access the Platform9 hypervisor and resources that you want to protect, the account used by Veeam Plug-in for Universal Hypervisor API must have the Administrator privileges. For more information on integration, see Platform9 documentation.

To allow Veeam Plug-in for Universal Hypervisor API to access the VergeOS hypervosor and resources that you want to protect, the account used by Veeam Plug-in for Universal Hypervisor API must have the Administrator privileges or the following granular permissions: List/Read on the entire system, List/Read/Create/Modify/Delete on Virtual Machines, vm_imports, files, meta_data.