If you manually assign a

Site Recovery Manager

role to a user or user group, or if you assign a

Site Recovery Manager

role to a user or user group that is not a

vCenter Server

administrator, these users do not obtain

vSphere Replication

privileges. The

Site Recovery Manager

roles do not include the privileges of the

vSphere Replication

roles. For example, the

Site Recovery Manager

Recovery Administrator role includes the privilege to run recovery plans, including recovery plans that contain

vSphere Replication

protection groups, but it does not include the privilege to configure

vSphere Replication

on a virtual machine. The separation of the

Site Recovery Manager

and

vSphere Replication

roles allows you to distribute responsibilities between different users. For example, one user with the VRM administrator role is responsible for configuring

vSphere Replication

on virtual machines, and another user with the

Site Recovery Manager

Recovery Administrator role is responsible for running recoveries.

In some cases, a user who is not

vCenter Server

administrator might require the privileges to perform both

Site Recovery Manager

and

vSphere Replication

operations. To assign a combination of

Site Recovery Manager

and

vSphere Replication

roles to a single user, you can add the user to two user groups.