-With 5.1 VMware has come up with Single Sign on (SSO), where you would have to add the identity sources (domain controllers).
-while installing if the installer is unable to detect the identity sources automatically then probably it may delete the users and permissions already present in the VC.
-You will also get a message on the same as well as the deleted users and groups will be placed on a text file in the temp location
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