Rights that must be assigned to the user of a VMware server that you will add to the VMware Proxy, to be able to perform VMware backups and restores:
[Via vSphere / vCenter Web UI] Home->Administraton->Roles
[Via ESXi Web UI] Host->Manage->Security & users->Roles
The Privledges required to add to the role that you will assign to the user to be able to perform VMware backups and restores, divided into the 3 privledge categories here:
Datastore
- Allocate space
- Browse datastore
- Low level file operations
Global
- Disable methods
- Enable methods
- Licenses
Virtual Machine
- Configuration
o Add existing disk
o Disk change tracking
o Disk lease
o Remove disk
- Provisioning
o Allow read-only disk access
- State
o Create snapshot
o Remove snapshot