vRanger cannot support datastore names that contain slashes or percentage characters (4038027)

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vRanger cannot support datastore names that contain slashes or percentage characters
Description

vRanger can not support operations against datastores with names containing the characters slash (/), backslash (\), and percent (%)
Cause

This is a VMware limitation.
The following is the exerpt from VMware's vSphere 5 documentation - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc_50/vim.Datastore.html:

You may use the following characters in a path, but not in a datastore name: slash (/), backslash (\), and percent (%).
Resolution

Please rename the datastore to be compliant with VMware standards.
Defect ID

13840, 13841

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