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

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

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.