This article provides the information on the password requirements and exceptions.
Symptoms:
- You see an error similar to the following when deploying VCH via HTML5 Plugin:
Failed to validate operations credentials: ServerFaultCode: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password
- The operations user is valid and exists in the vCenter. You can successfully login as this user.
- You see errors similar to the following when deploying VCH via " vic-machine-create" CLI:
time="2020-06-24T21:16:48-05:00" level=error msg=--------------------
time="2020-06-24T21:16:48-05:00" level=error msg="Failed to validate operations credentials: ServerFaultCode: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password."
time="2020-06-24T21:16:48-05:00" level=error msg="Configuring cannot continue: configuration validation failed"
time="2020-06-24T21:16:49-05:00" level=error msg=--------------------
time="2020-06-24T21:16:49-05:00" level=error msg="vic-machine-windows.exe configure failed: validation of configuration failed\n"