Required vCenter or ESXi user permissions for backup, restore, and OVA deployment
Phoenix Editions: 
Business Enterprise Elite
Business Enterprise Elite This article lists the supported backup and restore privileges. Users with the following backup and restore privileges are supported.
Backup and restore privileges
| Category | Permission | Description |
| Datastore | Datastore.AllocateSpace | Allocate Space |
| Datastore.Browse | Browse Datastore |
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Datastore.FileManagement |
Low Level File Operation |
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| Datastore.UpdateVirtualMachineFiles | Update VM Files | |
| Global | Global.DisableMethods | Disable Methods |
| Global.EnableMethods | Enable Methods |
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| Global.Licenses | Licenses |
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| Global.SetCustomField | Set Custom Attributes |
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| Global.ManageCustomFields | Manage Custom Attributes | |
| Host.Config.Storage | Create Datastore | |
| Network | Network.Assign | Assign |
| Resources | Resource.AssignVMToPool | Assign VM to Resource Pool |
| Virtual Machine - Inventory | VirtualMachine.Inventory.Create | Create New |
| VirtualMachine.Inventory.Register | Register |
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| VirtualMachine.Inventory.Delete | Remove |
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| VirtualMachine.Inventory.Unregister | Unregister | |
Virtual Machine - Provisioning |
VirtualMachine.Provisioning.DiskRandomAccess | Allow Disk Access |
| VirtualMachine.Provisioning.DiskRandomRead | Allow read only Disk Access |
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| VirtualMachine.Provisioning.GetVmFiles | Allow VM Download |
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| VirtualMachine.Provisioning.Clone | Clone virtual machine |
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| Virtual Machine - Guest Operations | VirtualMachine.GuestOperations.Modify | Guest Operation Modifications |
| VirtualMachine.GuestOperations.Execute | Guest Operation Program Execution |
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| VirtualMachine.GuestOperations.Query | Guest Operation Queries | |
| Virtual Machine - Interaction | VirtualMachine.Interact.DeviceConnection | Device Connection |
| VirtualMachine.Interact.PowerOn | Power On |
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| VirtualMachine.Interact.PowerOff | Power Off | |
Virtual Machine - Configuration |
VirtualMachine.Config.AddExistingDisk | Add Existing Disk |
| VirtualMachine.Config.AddNewDisk | Add New Disk | |
| VirtualMachine.Config.AddRemoveDevice | Add or Remove Device |
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| VirtualMachine.Config.AdvancedConfig | Advanced |
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| VirtualMachine.Config.Resource | Change resource |
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| VirtualMachine.Config.ChangeTracking | Disk Change Tracking |
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| VirtualMachine.Config.DiskLease | Disk Lease |
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| VirtualMachine.Config.RemoveDisk | Remove Disk |
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| VirtualMachine.Config.RawDevice | Raw Device |
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| VirtualMachine.Config.Settings | Settings | |
| Virtual Machine - Snapshot management | VirtualMachine.State.CreateSnapshot | Create Snap |
| VirtualMachine.State.RemoveSnapshot | Remove Snap |
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| VirtualMachine.State.RevertToSnapshot | Revert to Snap | |
| App Privileges | vApp.Import | Allows import of a vApp into vSphere |