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  2. Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Deployment Guide Using Terraform for Microsoft Azure
  3. Deploying Cloud Scale Technology using Terraform scripts
  4. Stages of deploying Terraform scripts on Azure
  5. Parameters for base stage
  6. Permissions attached to nbsm_role
Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Deployment Guide Using Terraform for Microsoft Azure

Permissions attached to nbsm_role

While deploying the Base stage, Terraform creates a nbsm_role if the use_existing_nbsm_role is set to false. By default, the Terraform assigns permissions required for below features:

Backup from snapshot
Creating backup from snapshot
Restore from backup from snapshot
Protection of Virtual Machines
Restore disks from snapshots/restore point
Rollback restore/Cleanup in restore
Restore disk
Cleanup
List Resources
Discovery
Snapshots and Restores
Snapshot
List restore points
List snapshots
List disk snapshots
Write snapshots
Snapshot cleanup
Create restore point collections
Restore VM
Get cluster information
Scale-in/Scale-out
High availability

Refer to the section Configuring permissions on Microsoft Azure from the guide NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager Install and Upgrade Guide to get more details about permissions for the listed features and add new permissions in case you want to use features which are not listed here.

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