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BlueXP disaster recovery

vCenter privileges needed for BlueXP disaster recovery

Contributors amgrissino

The vCenter account must have a minimum set of vCenter privileges to allow BlueXP disaster recovery to perform its services, such as registering and deregistering datastores, starting and stopping VMs, and reconfiguring virtual machines (VMs). The following table lists all privileges required for BlueXP disaster recovery to interface with a vCenter cluster.

Type Privilege name Description

Datastore

Datastore.Configure datastore

Use to configure a datastore.

Datastore.Remove datastore

Use to remove a datastore.

Virtual Machine

Virtual machine.Configuration.Change Settings

Use to change general VM settings.

Virtual machine.Configuration.Modify device settings

Use to change the properties of an existing device.

Virtual machine.Configuration.Reload from path

Use to change a VM configuration patch while preserving the identity of the VM. Solutions such as VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager use this operation to maintain VM identify during failover and failback.

Virtual machine.Configuration.Rename

Use to rename a VM or modify the associated nodes of a VM.

Virtual machine.Configuration.Reset guest information

Use to edit the guest operating system information for a VM.

Virtual machine.Configuration.Change Memory

Use to change the amount of memory allocated to the VM.

Virtual machine.Configuration.Change CPU count

Use to change the number of virtual CPUs.

Virtual Machine Guest

Virtual machine.Guest Operations.Guest Operation Modifications

Enables VM guest operations that involve changes to a guest operating system in a VM, such as transferring a file to the VM.

Virtual Machine Interaction

Virtual machine.Interaction.Power Off

Use to power off a powered-on VM. This operation powers down the guest operating system.

Virtual machine.Interaction.Power on

Use to power on a powered-off VM and resume a suspended VM.

Virtual machine.Interaction.VMware Tools install

Use to mount and unmount the VMware Tools CD installer as a CD-ROM for the guest operating system.

Virtual Machine Inventory

Virtual machine.Inventory.Create new

Use to create a VM and allocate resources for its execution.

Virtual machine.Inventory.Register

Use to add an existing VM to a vCenter Server or host inventory.

Virtual machine.Inventory.Unregister

Use to unregister a VM from a vCenter Server or host inventory.

Virtual Machine State

Virtual machine.Snapshot management.Create snapshot

Use to create a snapshot from the VM's current state.

Virtual machine.Snapshot management.Remove Snapshot

Use to remove a snapshot from the snapshot history.

Virtual machine.Snapshot management.Revert to snapshot

Use to set the VM to the state it was in at a given snapshot.