Virtual machine operations may fail when the VM naming convention contains square brackets
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Virtual machine operations may fail when the VM naming convention contains square brackets

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Article ID: 317573

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VMware

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
  • Virtual machines with strings in square brackets [] in their name might not deploy successfully, because of possible leading spaces added or missing.
​For example: ‘[username]vmname’ or ‘[username] vmname’ (note 2 spaces prefixed to vmname)


Resolution

This issue is resolved in VMware vSphere 6.5 U2, available at VMware Downloads.

Note::
The following VM operations may be impacted when destination ESXi host is any 6.x which does not have this fix and the VM name contain square brackets [].
  • Performing a vMotion, relocate or a clone operation.
  • Creating a template, converting a template, or deploying a VM from a template.
  • Enabling Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine.
  • During a HA event VM failover may not succeed.
  • DRS operations (Fully Automated) may not succeed.


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