System information
Site Recovery Manager Roles Reference
Site Recovery Manager includes a set of roles. Each role includes a set of privileges, which allow users with
those roles to complete different actions.
Roles can have overlapping sets of privileges and actions. For example, the Site Recovery Manager
Administrator role and the Site Recovery Manager Protection Groups Administrator have the Create
privilege for protection groups. With this privilege, the user can complete one aspect of the set of tasks that
make up the management of protection groups.
Assign roles to users on Site Recovery Manager objects consistently on both sites, so that protected and
recovery objects have identical permissions.
All users must have at least the System.Read privilege on the root folders of vCenter Server and the
Site Recovery Manager root nodes on both sites.
NOTE If you uninstall Site Recovery Manager Server, Site Recovery Manager removes the default
Site Recovery Manager roles but the Site Recovery Manager privileges remain. You can still see and assign
Site Recovery Manager privileges on other roles after uninstalling Site Recovery Manager. This is standard
vCenter Server behavior. Privileges are not removed when you unregister an extension from vCenter Server.
Chapter 1 Site Recovery Manager Privileges, Roles, and Permissions
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