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vSphere / ESXi Usernames

When adding users to ESXi 4.1 you can sometimes get the error "User name or password has an invalid format".

24 July 2012 • 2 min read

This is fixable by checking the following:

Your password is at least eight characters in length.
Your password or username entered contained characters outside of the character types allowed.

Allowed characters:

Published on 24 July 2012

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