VMware Live Cyber Recovery end user roles provide access to specific features and functionality.

Role

Permitted Operations

Orchestrator Admin

This user role can perform all operations listed in this table, except for creating a subscription.

Data Protection Auditor

  • View the UI read-only: Lists, tasks, reports, dialogs (except user management)
  • Create PDF of a compliance report and download it
Note: All other roles include this level of access.

Recovery Admin

Recovery plans

  • Create, edit, delete, duplicate recovery plans

Test disaster recovery

  • Run a recovery plan to test disaster recovery
  • Stop a test disaster recovery (no cleanup)
  • Cancel test disaster recovery
  • Roll back test disaster recovery
  • Retry failed tasks for a completed test disaster disaster recovery
  • Retry failed tasks in a step and continue
  • Ignore failure and continue without retry
  • Continue tasks after user confirmation
  • View recovery results

Disaster recovery

  • Run recovery plan for disaster recovery
  • Preview disaster recovery
  • Stop a running task
  • Cancel disaster recovery
  • Retry failed tasks for a completed disaster recovery operation
  • Retry failed tasks in a step and continue
  • Ignore failures, continue without retry
  • Continue task post user confirmation
  • Commit plan after recovery
Ransomware recovery
  • Run plan for ransomware recovery
  • Recover VMs during ransomware recovery
  • Open ransomware recovery security console (also requires at least one Carbon Black Cloud role)

Protection Admin

Cloud file system
  • Deploy a cloud file system
    Note:
    After you deploy the first cloud file system, contact VMware support for assistance deploying more.

API token

  • Configure API token

Protected sites

  • Create, update, delete a protected site
  • Add or remove a Cyber Recovery connector to/from a protected site
  • Add or remove a vCenter Server to/from a protected site
  • Run a connectivity check for the Cyber Recovery connector

Protection groups

  • Create, edit, delete a protection group
  • Activate/deactivate protection group
  • Schedule, take, delete snapshots
  • Restore, edit, delete a snapshot

VMs

  • Restore VM
  • Guest file recovery
Ransomware recovery
  • Run a plan for ransomware recovery

Recovery Tester

Recovery plan

  • Create, edit, delete, duplicate a recovery plan

Test recovery

  • Run a test recovery
  • Stop a test recovery
  • Cancel a test recovery
  • Rollback a test recovery
  • Retry failed tasks
  • Ignore failed tasks

View and clear alarms

Recovery SDDC admin

Recovery SDDCs

  • Configure an API token
  • Deploy or add, edit, delete a recovery SDDC
  • Add, rename, or delete a network on an SDDC
  • Request a new public IP address
  • Rename or delete a public IP address
  • Add, remove hosts
  • Add, edit, delete NAT rules
  • Add, edit, delete new firewall rules

API token

  • Configure API token

Global Console Admin

  • View existing deployments and their metadata
  • Create a new VMware Live Cyber Recovery deployment in any of the supported regions
  • Delete a partial/failed deployment
  • Query offers with all pricing information
  • View existing subscriptions and pricing
  • Create new commit subscriptions

Deployent Admin (activation)

  • Create a new VMware Live Cyber Recovery deployment in any of the supported regions
  • View existing deployments and their metadata.

Deployment Admin (deactivation)

  • Delete any existing deployment in any of the regions
  • Delete a partial/failed deployment
  • View existing deployments and their metadata

Subscription Admin

  • View term subscriptions and pricing
  • Create new commit subscriptions