Does Netbackup need a vcenter admin account in order to backup rhel vm's?

[ntbu]

We have 17 RHEL 7 virtual machines running on 2 HP servers with ESXi.  In order for Netbackup to successfully backup these virtual machines, is it true that a vCenter administrative account is needed?  Or can it be done sans access to vCenter?

[Will_Restore]

No vCenter account needed if you install NetBackup Client software on each VM. 

[Marianne]

Permissions needed for Vmware backups:

http://www.veritas.com/docs/000007351

[Nicolai]

You will need a Vcenter account with permission documented in Mariannes link.

Netbackup talk to Vcenter about snapshoting, removing and creating VM's. So yes, you need a account, but not nesseary a full admin account.

[vedara]

If you are using Vcenter in your environment, then Vcenter admin account with read and write permissions should be required for taking VM backups from NBU end.