using special characters is not something which vSphere products likes... change the name or try to use another account:
See:
VMware KB: Changing the vCenter Server database user ID and password
VMware KB: Changing the vCenter Server database user in SQL 2005 (including SQL Express)
INFO:
- Domain names with unsupported characters are not supported by vCenter Server.
For example, the underscore (_) character is not supported. - As documented in the ESXi and vCenter Server documentation, the host name of the machine must comply with RFC 952 guidelines. RFC 952 guidelines state that underscores are not a valid character. For more information, see the System Prerequisites section of the vSphere Installation and Setup guide and the RFC 952 guidelines.
- Unsupported characters are also documented by Microsoft for Active Directory. For more information, see Microsoft knowledge Base article 909264. According to the Microsoft article, DNS domain names and DNS host names cannot contain these characters:
- comma (
,) - tilde (
~) - colon (
:) - exclamation point (
!) - at sign (
@) - number sign (
#) - dollar sign (
$) - percent (
%) - caret (
^) - ampersand (
&) - apostrophe (
') - period (
.) - parentheses (
()) - braces (
{}) - underscore (
_) - white space (blank)
- comma (
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