📝 Note
This feature is currently available under the Early Access program. To know more about the Early Access program and sign up for this feature, contact Support or your Account Executive.
To protect your virtual environment, Druva interacts directly with the Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) APIs. This connection gives Druva the necessary access to backup and recover virtual machines.
To perform backup and restore operations, the configured user must meet these baseline criteria:
Authentication Realm:
PAM(Pluggable Authentication Modules)Required User:
root@pam(or a user with equivalent system-level permissions)Required Role:
AdministratorAccess Scope: Datacenter level (propagated to all nodes and storage)
The Administrator role in Proxmox includes complete access to all resources and operations required for backup and restore. Druva requires this role to manage complex tasks across your entire Proxmox cluster. The following are the specific areas of access:
Virtual Machine Management to
create/delete snapshots
create/delete VMs
modify VM configurations (CPU/RAM/Network) for recovery
manage power states (Start/Stop) during restores
Storage and Disk Access to
read/write VM disks
allocate storage volumes for restores
access backup metadata
Datacenter and Cluster Management to
access cluster-wide configurations
view resource inventory,
monitor node status to find VMs regardless of which physical server they are on