SUMMARY
VMware user permissions
ISSUE
What are the VMWare user permissions required for Boomerang?
RESOLUTION
For Boomerang Replication, the following are the minimum privileges:
- Read-Only Privilege
- Global.Enable methods
- Global.Disable methods
- Global.Licenses
- Virtual machine.Provisioning.Allow read-only disk access
- Virtual machine.Provisioning.Allow virtual machine download
- Virtual machine.Snapshot management.Create snapshot
- Virtual machine.Snapshot management.Remove snapshot
For Boomerang Restore/Copyback, you need these extra permissions:
- Datastore.Allocate space
- Folder.Create folder
- Network.Assign network
- Resource.Assign virtual machine to resource pool
- Virtual machine.Configuration (All)
- Virtual machine.Inventory.Create new
- Virtual machine.Inventory.Remove
- Virtual machine.Provisioning.Allow disk access
- Virtual machine.Provisioning.Allow virtual machine files upload
For the Boomerang VMware plugin, you need to enable:
- Extension (All)
- Tasks (All)