While building a demo environment of VMware Horizon Workspace for EMC World 2013 I found that if you want to use a domain administrative or service account for connecting Workspace to the vCenter (this is needed so that workspace can monitor its own VM’s health) you will need to negate the ‘\’ for the domain. To negate the slash make it a double slash like this”\\”. This will allow the Workspace Configurator to connect to the vCenter using a domain level account.
Here’s an example:
Enter the vCenter admin username [root]: domain\\ServiceAdminAccount
If you don’t put the double slash in all you will wind up with is a bunch of log messages about a user trying to login on the local machine and maybe some locked out accounts.
You can find information about running the Configurator’s Virtual Appliance Interface here: http://pubs.vmware.com/horizon-workspace-10/topic/com.vmware.hs-install.doc_10/GUID-6EF14E22-3B13-4163-9B3E-25E19A2E192B.html
