Hello,
Please don't take that article as a reference, it doesn't work simply because it's "archaic" and already in relatively recent versions of ESXi the "userdel" command doesn't even exist and in any case when you want to use a "HOST" name it must be resolved somehow and you are quite likely to end up with other messes. I don't want to convince anyone, let's say that I've learned that "it's better to let go" of doing things the way written in that old article.
From my point of view @markey165 has well explained the point of the speech, which (obviously) IMHO by now should no longer be a sort of "news".
Regards,
Ferdinando
